What is Sadako Sasaki?
{{complex|2=Make the medical terms easier to read|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Sadako Sasaki | image = | caption = Sadako Sasaki as photographed in 1955 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1943|01|07}} | birth_place = [[Kusunoki]], [[Asa District]], [[Yamaguchi Prefecture]],<br/> [[Empire of Japan]] (modern-day [[Japan]]) | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1955|10|25|1943|01|07}} | death_place = [[Hiroshima]], Japan | death_cause = [[Leukemia]] | resting_place = [[Fukuoka Prefecture]], Japan | nationality = Japanese | known_for = Atomic bomb victim }} '''Sadako Sasaki''' ({{birth date|df=yes|1943|01|07}}{{spnd}}{{death date|df=yes|1955|10|25}}) was a [[Japan|Japanese]] girl who, at age 2, was caught in the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing of Hiroshima]]. She survived for another ten years after the bombing, becoming one of the best-known [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. She eventually developed [[leukemia]] from being exposed to the bomb's [[radiation]], and is best known for folding one thousand [[origami]] [[Crane (bird)|cranes]] in hopes of recovery. She died on {{death date|df=yes|1955|10|25}}, at the age of 12, in [[Hiroshima]], [[Japan]]. == Biography == Sadako Sasaki was born into a Japanese family in the city of [[Kusunoki]]. On the morning hours of 6 August 1945, Sadako was at home with her family when the [[United States Army Air Force]] dropped an [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bomb on Hiroshima]]. During the bombings, she was thrown out of her house through the window. Though she had no apparent injuries, Sadako was exposed to the bomb's radiation and was caught in [[nuclear fallout]] while freeing with her mother. Sadako's grandmother died in the bombings. === Education === When she grew up, Sadako went to school and became an important membe