The atomic bombing survivor who met world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May says their visit to the city's peace museum had been a "significant first step" toward abolishing nuclear weapons even though survivors and activists remain divided over the event's achievements.
Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old Japanese girl who died from radiation-induced leukemia caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States, is remembered for making over a thousand origami paper cranes in her hospital bed under the belief it would aid her recovery.
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U.S. President Joe Biden brought two folded paper cranes to the museum of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing when the Group of Seven advanced nations' leaders visited during the May summit in the city, a government source has said.
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