The statue depicted Sadako Sasaki, who was 12 when she died from cancer likely caused by the Hiroshima bombing. Community members believe a thief saw value in her bronze cast.

The five-foot, life-size bronze statue of Sadako is a symbol of peace. She's a Japanese girl that was 2 years old when she survived the atom bomb in Hiroshima, but because of the radiation from ...

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.

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.

KING 5's cameras were there when Sadako's statue was placed in its permanent home in 1990. Dr. Floyd Schmoe, a Quaker, used prize money from winning the Hiroshima Peace Prize to clear out the ...

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 ...

The five-foot, life-size bronze statue of Sadako is a symbol of peace. She's a Japanese girl that was 2 years old when she survived the atom bomb in Hiroshima, but because of the radiation from ...

Jul. 14—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.