Life of bomb-hit Hiroshima girl and family being made into film
(WorldNews Japan)

A documentary film detailing Sadako Sasaki, an iconic figure in Hiroshima whose life in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of the western Japan city in World War II inspired many stories about wishes for peace, is in the process of production, her family said recently. Sadako, who died at age 12 of radiation-induced leukemia 10 years after the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing, set out to a challenge while in a hospital bed to fold a thousand paper cranes after she learned of the...