he paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of it's connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943. Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
At the site of the August 6, 1945 nuclear blast over Hiroshima, Japan. The structure lying directly under the hypocenter of the explosion and now known as the "A-Bomb Dome" remained partially standing after the blast, and has been preserved in this state since 1945.
広島市中区中島町
Hiroshima, Hiroshima-ken, JP
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Discovered by Brian Hunziker
on 31 October 2007.
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