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Nagasaki student peace envoy greets well-wishers

NAGASAKI, Japan - Masaki Koyanagi (L), a 16-year-old high school student from Nagasaki, receives a string of a thousand origami paper cranes in front of JR Nagasaki Station on Aug. 16, 2014, before traveling as one of 20 Japanese high school students to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland, to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Nagasaki's 66th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman offers a thousand paper cranes on Aug. 9, 2011, at Peace Park in the city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, where the ceremony to commemorate the 66th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing was held the same day.

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Nagasaki's 66th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman offers a thousand paper cranes to a peace statue at Peace Park in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2011, the 66th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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10,000 Japanese paper cranes added to Tribute WTC Visitor Center

NEW YORK, United States - Ten thousand cranes folded by Japanese family members and friends of Fuji Bank employees killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers were hung April 10 as a tribute to their memory at a visitor center near ground zero.

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Miss Universe Japan meets PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presents a paper crane that he folded to Marybelen Sakamoto, who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant, as they meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022. Sakamoto will wear a costume featuring a thousand paper cranes at the pageant to be held in January 2023.

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Miss Universe Japan meets PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presents a paper crane that he folded to Marybelen Sakamoto, who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant, as they meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022. Sakamoto will wear a costume featuring a thousand paper cranes at the pageant to be held in January 2023.

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Nagasaki's 66th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman offers a thousand paper cranes on Aug. 9, 2011, at Peace Park in the city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, where the ceremony to commemorate the 66th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing was held the same day. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki's 66th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman offers a thousand paper cranes to a peace statue at Peace Park in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2011, the 66th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. (Kyodo)

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Rugby: All Blacks' arrival in Japan

New Zealand rugby captain Kieran Read (R) poses for a photo after receiving a thousand paper cranes from a local rugby school in Kashiwa, Japan, on Sept. 9, 2019, as the All Blacks arrive at their training site ahead of the Rugby World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Obama to visit Pearl Harbor

Photo taken Dec. 15, 2016, at the visitors center of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii shows an "orizuru" paper crane, created by Sadako Sasaki who died at age 12 in 1955, 10 years after being exposed to radiation from the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit there with U.S. President Barack Obama later in the month to remember those who died in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is believed in Japan that one's wish will come true if one folds a thousand cranes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo