The 6th of this month is Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Day. A metal replica was donated to Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, where a young girl who died in the atomic bombing keeps an origami crane that she had folded in her hospital bed.
This origami crane was folded by Sadako Sasaki, who died at the age of 12 after the atomic bombing and became the model for the "Children's Peace Monument" in Hiroshima City's Peace Park, praying for her recovery in her sickbed, and Chigasaki City keeps one of them.
The metal replica was made by the bereaved family using the latest digital technology in cooperation with a company in Hiroshima Prefecture in order to preserve the origami crane for future generations as a symbol of peace, and Sadako's neighbour, Yuji Sasaki, donated it to the city on March 1.
The cranes were distributed to the leaders of each country at the G5 Hiroshima Summit in May this year and became a hot topic, and they were immediately displayed in the lobby alongside the relics of origami cranes, and elementary and junior high school students in the city who were invited on the day looked on.
There are about 7 origami cranes left in Japan and overseas, but they are fading year by year, so Yushige says, "I feel that this metal crane has been revived as a 'new paper crane.' I was talking.