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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-01-07 ) January 7, 1943, Kusunoki, Yamaguchi , Japan (now part of Ube, Yamaguchi )
- Died
- October 25, 1955 (1955-10-25) (aged 12), Red Cross Hospital, Hiroshima , Japan
- Cause of death
- Leukemia
- Resting place
- Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan
- Occupation
- Student
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Hiroshima
- Place of death
- Hiroshima
- Occupation
- schoolchild
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Image
- Sadako Sasaki.webp
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- Commons category
- Sadako Sasaki
- date of birth
- 1943-01-01
- name in kana
- ささき さだこ
- date of death
- 1955-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- 佐々木禎子
- depicted by
- Children's Peace Monument
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
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Encyclopedic overview
Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako; January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
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