Origami is “the Japanese art of folding paper into attractive shapes.”(OALD) Orizuru, or paper crane, has especially become a symbol of peace. This stems from a story about a girl named Sadako, who tried folding a thousand crane in hopes that her leukemia, caused by the atomic bomb, would be cured. She became a model for the statue at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. To tell the truth, I wasn’t able to fold a crane until I was 12 years old. However, before I took a school trip to Hiroshima, I read this story and was so impressed that I practiced a lot. On the day of the visit to Hiroshima, I gave 100 cranes that I have folded by myself to the statue. Now, the culture of origami is spreading all over the world. I hope with this spread, the story about Sadako will be widely known and more and more people will fold paper cranes wishing for eternal peace soa natural?