Honoring Hiroshima victims with origami

Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin Temple hosted a Hiroshima Peace Memorial Service Saturday morning to honor lives lost due to the first atomic bomb dropped in Japan 77 years ago.

After the service, the public folded paper cranes in honor of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima at two years old.

She survived for another ten years and is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 in October 1955 in Hiroshima.

Folded cranes will be sent to Hiroshima to be placed beneath Sadako’s statue.