Paper cranes for missing coach

Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return.

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