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 legend that doing so will make a wish come true.Although it is said she completed over a thousand of the origami cranes, her…READ FULL ARTICLE
