The Story of 1000 Paper Cranes

The crane is a sacred bird in Japanese mythology.  It is believed that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will be granted one wish.  You may be familiar with the story of Sadako, a Japanese girl who made one thousand cranes to cure her leukaemia cause by the Hiroshima bomb in 1945.  It is because of her story that the crane became the symbol for World Peace.