Evelyn Skye says her 10th book, The Incredible Kindness of Paper, is an important story right now with its roots in human ...

Over 3,000 origami cranes are on display at the Iowa State Fair, honoring the 65th anniversary of Iowa’s sister-state ...

A local organization is connecting Iowans to Japan one origami crane at a time. Teodora Mitov reports.

Over 3,000 origami cranes are on display at the Iowa State Fair, honoring the 65th anniversary of Iowa's sister-state ...

My path to creating 1,000 origami cranes began in an unlikely place: a Japanese mystery novel. I read “A Death in Tokyo,” by Keigo Higashino, at the end of August.

We arranged our 300 origami cranes in a rainbow gradient on the living room floor where they were soon joined by our curious cat, Amber. The playfulness of the photos belied the somber reality.

We first became acquainted with the story of the 1,000 paper cranes when we saw a “flock” of the origami birds at the home of a good friend. An ancient legend says that if a sick person folds ...

The second life of Hiroshima's origami cranesAnd since 2015, the ash from the burned cranes has been used to glaze ceramic incense burners and candle holders, including one given to Ukrainian ...

Paper cranes hang in the Origami Cranes for Hope & Healing art installation at Cameron Elementary School in West Covina on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Teacher Laurie San Miguel created the school ...

Debbie Graziano lives 2,000 miles from Park Ridge, but that didn’t keep her from folding more than 100 origami paper cranes for the Park Ridge Public Library. The retired teacher from Carpenter ...

At a hillside temple, a monk in saffron robes blows a refrain on a conch and begins chanting prayers as thousands of origami cranes donated to Hiroshima burn. For a decade, the Daisho-in Buddhist ...