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Crown princess watches musical on A-bomb victim

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (R) and her daughter, Princess Kako, visit a theater in Hiroshima on Aug. 10, 2025, to watch "Peace on Your Wings," a musical about Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who died at age 12 from leukemia. (Pool photo)

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Photo taken May 17, 2023, shows paper cranes made by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city. Sasaki folded hundreds of paper cranes until her death at age 12 from leukemia, after learning of the legend that making 1,000 of them could make a wish come true.

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Philippines decorates JICA's Ogata for helping Mindanao peace talks

TOKYO, Japan - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Sadako Ogata, former head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the U.N. refugee agency, pose for a photo at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2013, after Ogata received the Order of Sikatuna from Aquino for her contribution to peace talks between the Philippine government and rebel leaders in Mindanao. The order is given to individuals who have provided exceptional service to the Philippines. Aquino is in Tokyo to attend a Japan-ASEAN summit.

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Sadako's brother in N.Y. to spread paper cranes' message

NEW YORK, United States - Masahiro Sasaki (R), the older brother of Sadako, who died a decade after the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima during World War II, and Lee Ielpi of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center, show a paper crane folded by Sadako.

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Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

TOKYO, Japan - Poet Kiyoko Horiba stands on a beach near her home in Onjuku, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2014. She wonders why the postwar Allied occupation authorities had to cut a reference to the Japanese army's atrocities in Hiroshima A-bomb surviving poet Sadako Kurihara's poems in "Black Eggs" in 1946, if not the A-bomb part itself, as Horiba, also an A-bomb survivor, helped Kurihara publish the full original version in 1983. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Ex-UNHCR Ogata given award in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.N. high commissioner for refugees Sadako Ogata gives an address on Oct. 23, 2014, in Washington, the United States, as she received the Pragmatist and Idealist Award from a major think tank, Stimson Center, for her contribution to strengthening global security.

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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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A-bomb literature materials for World Memory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the final draft of Sankichi Toge's Poems of the Atomic Bomb, author and atomic bomb survivor Tamiki Hara's notepad, and anti-war poet Sadako Kurihara's notebook (from L to R) at Hiroshima city hall on June 5, 2014. A citizen group announced the same day it will seek to have the materials included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

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A-bomb-exposed poet's documents donated to Hiroshima univ.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tokiko Tsuchiya (R), head of a citizens' group seeking to preserve Hiroshima-related literary materials, looks at articles of the late poet Sadako Kurihara, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing, donated to Hiroshima Jogakuin University in Hiroshima, western Japan, on May 10, 2014.

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Post-quake temporary home residents make owl charms

MORIOKA, Japan - Sadako Yoshida, a resident of temporary housing in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, built after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, holds a bunch of owl-shaped good luck charms called "Fuku-chan," in the northeastern Japan city in March 2014.

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Davos Forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (3rd from R) takes part in a ceremony to open a sake barrel in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014. It was part of the Japan Night event in the Swiss resort hosting the World Economic Forum.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States gather around a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States pose for photos near a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States pose for photos near a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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Ex-U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata. At a high-level meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 8, 2013, Ogata called for greater support from the international community for some of the world's most vulnerable people, including those threatened by internal violence, health pandemics and climate change.

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Mexico decoration

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto awards the Order of Aztec Eagle to former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi and former Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone for their contributions to bilateral friendship at the Mexican Embassy in Tokyo on April 10, 2013.

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Japan event in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese singer MISIA (R), who has been appointed as an honorary ambassador for the fifth round of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama in June 2013, speaks about aid for Africa during an event to introduce Japanese food on Jan. 24, 2013 in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was being held. At left is Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and former president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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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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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, from Christine Lagarde (R), the chief of the International Monetary Fund, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - (From L to R) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata attend a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012, to receive the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group. The other recipient was record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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UNRWA Commissioner General Grandi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Filippo Grandi (R), commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Sadako Ogata, special adviser to the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, attend a symposium in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2012.

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Truman's grandson visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (L), the eldest grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, holds talks with Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, devastated by the atomic bombing ordered by his grandfather in 1945, at the city office on Aug. 4, 2012. The 55-year-old former journalist was visiting Japan to attend annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and in Nagasaki three days later at the invitation of the nonprofit peace organization Sadako Legacy.

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Truman's grandson visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (L), the eldest grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, shakes hands with a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, ordered by his grandfather, during his visit to the city on Aug. 4, 2012. The 55-year-old former journalist was visiting Japan to attend annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and in Nagasaki three days later at the invitation of the nonprofit peace organization Sadako Legacy.

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Truman's grandson visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (L), the eldest grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, shakes hands with Masahiro Sasaki, head of the nonprofit peace organization Sadako Legacy and older brother of Sadako Sasaki, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 4, 2012. Sadako died of leukemia at age 12 a decade after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima ordered by Daniel's grandfather. The 55-year-old former journalist was visiting Japan to attend annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki three days later at the invitation of Sadako Legacy.

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Truman's grandson visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (L), the eldest grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, offers flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was ordered by his grandfather, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 4, 2012. The 55-year-old former journalist was visiting Japan to attend annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki three days later at the invitation of the nonprofit peace organization Sadako Legacy.

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Truman's grandson to visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki, moved by Sadako story

CHICAGO, United States - Clifton Daniel, the grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, is pictured at his Chicago home discussing his experience holding Sadako Sasaki's last paper crane and how his son's interest in her story prompted him to make his first trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photo taken July 23, 2012.

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Truman's grandson to visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki, moved by Sadako story

CHICAGO, United States - Clifton Daniel, the grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, is pictured at his Chicago home among photos of his family. He plans to stand with atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to press for a nuclear-free world. Photo taken July 23, 2012.

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Afghan development conference in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Participants at an international conference on Afghan development, including (from L to R, front) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and adviser to the Foreign Ministry and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, pose for photos in Tokyo on July 8, 2012.

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Departing JICA chief Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a news conference at the organization's headquarters in Tokyo on March 29, 2012, two days before stepping down as JICA chief.

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JICA President Ogata

CAIRO, Egypt - Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata speaks in Cairo, Egypt, to diplomatic circles on March 19, 2012. She said the Japanese aid organization will offer a broad range of support to Egypt and other countries that have experienced the ''Arab Spring'' democratization movements while paying attention to correcting social inequalities.

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Univ. of Tokyo's Tanaka to head JICA

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows University of Tokyo Vice President Akihiko Tanaka. Tanaka, a professor of international politics, will replace Sadako Ogata as president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency effective April 1, 2012, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Jan. 17, 2012.

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Kan at Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L, front) meets with former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (R, front) and Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata (C, front) in Davos on Jan. 29, 2011. Kan was in the Swiss resort to attend an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English version of a Japanese picture book on A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki of Hiroshima, who died at the age of 12, 10 years after the bombing. The English version published in December 2010 depicts Sadako's life in a hospital as the author Kiyo Okura, who died in 2008, stayed in the same hospital room with Sadako for about three months. It was translated by Okura's acquaintance Keiko Miyamoto and others.

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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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A-bomb victim Sadako's story narrated in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Japan Society educator Kazuko Minamoto narrates the story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, to children at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center in New York on Aug. 7, 2010, using 1,000 paper cranes.

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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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A-bomb icon Sadako's brother appeals for peace at N.Y. ceremony

NEW YORK, United States - Masahiro Sasaki (L) meets a relative (R) of a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States in New York on May 3, 2010. Sasaki is the older brother of Sadako Sasaki, who died a decade after surviving the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945.

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2 women die in residential fire in Chiba Pref.

CHIBA, Japan - The house of Ippei Saito, 90, in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, is cordoned off after two women, believed to be Saito's wife Sadako, 85, and their daughter Kazue, 61, were killed in a predawn fire on Dec. 21, 2009.

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JICA chief Ogata visits Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sadako Ogata (L), chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, meets with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi in Baghdad on Oct. 10, 2009. Ogata became the first leader of the Japanese public foreign aid entity to visit Iraq since the U.S. invaded the country in 2003.

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Ogata seeks boost in Japan's ODA, mulls aid for displaced people

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on May 25. Ogata urged the Japanese government to boost its official development assistance.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors back Obama's nuclear-free commitment

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba shows a paper crane, while delivering a speech during a session of the preparatory committee of the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York on May 5, as Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (back, center) looks on. Akiba told the story of a Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor Sadako Sasaki, who died at the age of 12 from radiation-caused leukemia after the U.S. nuclear attack in 1945. He said the paper crane in his hand was one that she made hoping for an early recovery.

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Japan to pay Afghan police salaries: envoys

WASHINGTON, United States - Sadako Ogata (R), Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's special envoy to support Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during a news conference in Washington on March 9. Ogata and Motohide Yoshikawa (L), the Japanese ambassador to Spain who doubles as the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said they met U.S. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke and told him that Japan will pay half a year's salary for about 80,000 police officers in Afghanistan, worth $124 million, to help reconstruct the war-ravaged country.

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Ogata says China's development in Tokyo's interest

BEIJING, China - Sadako Ogata, head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 24.

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Ogata sends message to Aichi Expo forum

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Sadako Ogata, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks in a video message to participants in a forum on the environment and peace at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on July 9.

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Poet Sadako Kurihara, who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies

OSAKA, Japan - In this file photo taken on Aug. 6 2003, Sadako Kurihara, a poet who depicted the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, recites her poem at a peace rally in Hiroshima. Kurihara died on March 6 at her home in Hiroshima. She was 92.

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Annan's advisory body to present U.N. reform report

NEW YORK, United States - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and U.N. high commissioner for refugees from 1991 to 2000, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Nov. 6. An advisory panel that was appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and includes Ogata concluded its last meeting in New York and will present its final report to Annan on Dec. 2.