Cranes folded out of colourful paper (origami) on the Children Peace Memorial in the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan.

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Cranes folded out of colourful paper in memorial of leukaemia victim Sadako She decided to make fold thousand cranes as she believed this would cure her from her disease She died before she competed this task but school children in Japan now bring long string of these cranes to this memorial

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Size: 5162px × 3441px
Location: Peace memorial park, Hiroshima, Japan
Photo credit: © Koen Broker / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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