Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: Autumn 1955~ Hope

Aftermath

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Sadako Sasaki died on October 25, 1955. Her classmates folded the rest of the 365 cranes, so that 1000 were buried with her. After the funeral the bamboo class collected Sadako's letters and her journal and published them in a book, called Kokeshi, named after the doll they had given to her when she was in the hospital. The book was sent around Japan and soon everyone knew her story. Sadako's friends and many other young people throughout the country collected money to make a monument to Sadako and all the children who were killed by the atom bomb. It was completed and unveiled in 1958 at Hiroshima Peace Park. A folded Crane Club was organized in her honor. Even today members still place thousands of paper cranes beneath the monument on August 6th, Peace Day.