Paper crane folded by A-bomb victim

Paper crane folded by A-bomb victim

HONOLULU, United States - Yuji Sasaki (L) hands to a national park authority official in Honolulu on Sept. 22, 2012, a paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who famously battled illness caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima until her death at age 12. The crane will be put on permanent exhibit in about three months' time at the visitor center of a memorial built on the USS Arizona, which sank during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Yuji is Sadako's nephew.

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