More than 1.2 mil. paper cranes sent to replace burned ones

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Volunteers arrange 1.2 million paper cranes Aug. 27 which have been sent to Kwansei Gakuin University from around the country to replace paper cranes burned earlier this month, allegedly by a student of the university, at a monument to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. A university student group delivered a batch of some 300,000 of the paper cranes Aug. 28 to the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, where the monument stands.

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