Kin of A-bomb victim tells story tied to Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima

Masahiro Sasaki shows a paper crane folded by his late sister Sadako while giving a talk on her in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2015. Sadako, who suffered radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing and died of leukemia 10 years later at 12, kept folding paper cranes until her death. She is a model of the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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