| Chugoku Shimbun Peace News | |
| Russian children offer cranes to Children's Peace Monument | '03/8/3 |
One thousand paper cranes folded by Russian children have been delivered to Hiroshima. Municipal staff will present the cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park, Naka-ku, on August 6.
In February this year, an educational magazine for children called Why? Put out by the Russian publisher Young Engineers, printed the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was the model for the Children's Peace Monument. The publisher learned of the incident last February in which paper cranes were burned and called on its readers to "..fold cranes to call for peace and happiness." It also printed instructions for folding the cranes. The magazine solicited the cranes into June this year; they were delivered in late July via the Japanese Embassy in Russia and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Each crane carries a child's messages written in Russian. It is unusual to receive paper cranes from Russia. Supervisor Tomohiro Okazaki (38) of the The city's International Peace Promotion Department said, "We are happy that efforts for peace are spreading." (Caption)The thousand paper cranes delivered from children in Russia
    
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