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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. SCHOOLBOY OFFERING A GARLAND OF COLORFUL PAPER CRANES TO THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. SCOUTS IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. SCHOLARS SINGING IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. SCOUTS IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. SCHOOLGIRLS OFFERING A GARLAND OF COLORFUL PAPER CRANES TO THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Hiroshima - Japan

JAPAN. HIROSHIMA. YOUTHS IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN'S PEACE MONUMENT. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fukushima students see Hiroshima A-bomb ceremony

HIROSHIMA, Japan - High school student Maya Fukuda (far R) from Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, and four other middle and high school students from the northeastern Japanese prefecture lay paper cranes and flowers before the Children's Peace Monument in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014.

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Brother of symbolic A-bomb victim speaks in LA

LOS ANGELES, United States - Masahiro Sasaki, an elder brother of Sadako Sasaki who was a model of the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, speaks in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 2, 2014. Sadako was an A-bomb victim who died from radiation disease at the age of 12.

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Armenia receives peace stone from Hiroshima, Japan

YEREVAN, Armenia - A monument featuring a "Stone for Peace" form the atomic bombed city of Hiroshima in Japan is erected in Children's Park in front of Yerevan City Hall in Armenia on June 24, 2014.

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A woman prays in front of the Children's Peace Monument, dedicated to the child victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city at 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack.

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Keiko Miyamoto, who was involved in the publication of ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English translation of a Japanese picture book on young A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki in Hiroshima, poses with the book in front of the Children's Peace Monument at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 27, 2010.

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65th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school student offers paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 2010, a day ahead of the 65th memorial of the nuclear bombing by the United States.

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65th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school student offers paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 2010, a day ahead of the 65th memorial of the nuclear bombing by the United States.

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Hiroshima students call for peace at Children's Peace Monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 400 elementary and junior high school students take part in a ceremony in front of the Children's Peace Monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima children call for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Junior high school students offer paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, prior to the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. The monument was built in memory of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the bombing at age two and died ten years later with leukemia, and other young victims.

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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta places 1,000 folded paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 19, 2010. Ramos-Horta is in Japan from March 14 on a weeklong visit.

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Children's Peace Monument in the Hiroshima Peace Park

Children's Peace Monument in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, by the Genbaku Domu, Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Date: 2015

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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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Students lay paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima

Junior high school students in Hiroshima lay paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city on July 24, 2015, at an annual ceremony to pray for peace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima to recycle paper cranes to make graduation certificates

Graduation and other certificates, pictured on July 8, 2015, are made of recycled paper from millions of paper cranes sent to the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, western Japan, from at home and abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filmmaking scene of "Orizuru 2015"

Shooting of a short film entitled "Orizuru 2015," directed by Miyuki Sohara, is seen underway in Los Angeles in June 2015. Sohara's 11-year-old son Takamaro (R) plays the main character in the film that is based on the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima at age two. The Children's Peace Monument was erected in the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japanese city to remember her short life and all the children who died from the bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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65th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school student offers paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 2010, a day ahead of the 65th memorial of the nuclear bombing by the United States. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A woman prays in front of the Children's Peace Monument, dedicated to the child victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city at 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. (Kyodo)

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65th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school student offers paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 2010, a day ahead of the 65th memorial of the nuclear bombing by the United States. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima students call for peace at Children's Peace Monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 400 elementary and junior high school students take part in a ceremony in front of the Children's Peace Monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima children call for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Junior high school students offer paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, prior to the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. The monument was built in memory of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the bombing at age two and died ten years later with leukemia, and other young victims. (Kyodo)

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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta places 1,000 folded paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 19, 2010. Ramos-Horta is in Japan from March 14 on a weeklong visit. (Kyodo)

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Brother of symbolic A-bomb victim speaks in LA

LOS ANGELES, United States - Masahiro Sasaki, an elder brother of Sadako Sasaki who was a model of the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, speaks in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 2, 2014. Sadako was an A-bomb victim who died from radiation disease at the age of 12. (Kyodo)

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Armenia receives peace stone from Hiroshima, Japan

YEREVAN, Armenia - A monument featuring a "Stone for Peace" form the atomic bombed city of Hiroshima in Japan is erected in Children's Park in front of Yerevan City Hall in Armenia on June 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Keiko Miyamoto, who was involved in the publication of ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English translation of a Japanese picture book on young A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki in Hiroshima, poses with the book in front of the Children's Peace Monument at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 27, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Annual commemorative ceremony held in Hiroshima

A junior high school student offers paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the Children's Peace Monument in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the atomic bombed city of Hiroshima on July 25, 2017, during an annual commemorative ceremony. The monument is modeled after Sadako Sasaki, an A-bomb victim who folded paper cranes until her death at 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peace ceremony at Children's Peace Monument

Elementary and junior high school students donate paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 25, 2016. The monument was built in 1958 in memory of Sadako Sasaki, an iconic victim of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing who made paper cranes while in hospital, praying for the city's recovery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo