Sadako’s classmates honored her by fundraising for a monument that still stands tall in Hiroshima’s own Peace Park, adorned with more than 10 million paper cranes every year.

A statue of Hiroshima bombing survivor Sadako Sasaki, which has stood for decades at Peace Park in Seattle’s University District, has been stolen, according to police.

A bronze statue in a Seattle park modeled after Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old Japanese girl who died of leukemia following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has been found missing from the ankles up, ...

SEATTLE — A piece of history that once stood in Seattle's Peace Park is now gone forever after thieves cut down the bronze statue of a 12-year-old girl known as Sadako Sasaki. The theft occurred ...

The original bronze statue of Sadako Sasaki honored a 12-year-old Japanese girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and later died of leukemia. Her story and the paper cranes she folded while ...

Quakers from University Friends Meeting ask that Seattleites keep an eye out for a life-size statue of Sadako ... used his prize money from the 1998 Hiroshima Peace Prize to establish Peace Park, ...

The statue of Sadako Sasaki stood in Seattle's Peace Park for decades, until July 12 when it was discovered someone cut the statue at the ankles and stole it. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...