Sadako Sasaki

Writing about Sadako Sasaki feels less like profiling a celebrity and more like keeping a promise. She was two when the bomb fell on Hiroshima, irradiated, and gone by twelve, yet her folded paper cranes became a language the whole world could understand. What moves me is how a child with no platform, no career, no time, ended up shaping global memory of war more powerfully than many leaders. Her story refuses abstraction; it puts a small, real face on an unthinkable scale of loss. I include her here with deep humility, because some names should never be allowed to fade.

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Name (English)

Sadako Sasaki

Name (Japanese)

佐々木禎子

Reading

ささき さだこ

Born

January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955

Origin

Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

schoolchild

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako%20Sasaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8%E7%A6%8E%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231997

Tags

• Hiroshima Prefecture
• schoolchild

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.