LOS ANGELES, CA: In a stirring remembrance of the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima, Japan 68 years ago, The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) will host Remembering Sadako: A Call For Peace Aug. 3-6 in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. The four day event will promote peace through the arts, culminating with a performance by long-time peace activist and renowned singer/songwriter, Jackson Browne, in the Aratani Theatre.
Among the special guests will be the brother and nephew of Sadako Sasaki, whose story was immortalized in the children’s book “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.” Sadako was two when the bomb was dropped. At age 11, she became ill with leukemia from radiation exposure. In keeping with a Japanese legend that says that if a sick person folds 1,000 paper cranes, the gods will make her well again, Sadako spent long hours in bed, folding those paper cranes, and never giving up hope. When Sadako had folded six hundred and forty-four cranes, and they hung above her bed on strings, her classmates folded the rest.
“Sadako is remembered by children around the globe through the story of a thousand origami cranes,” said Leslie Ito, Chief Executive Officer of the JACCC. “She and the origami paper crane have become international symbols for peace and we invite people of all ages and ethnicities to join us Aug. 3-6 to celebrate peace through arts and culture.
All events take place at the JACCC, located at 244 S. San Pedro Street (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles.
India Post News Service
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