May/June 2025 HAWAII PARENT 75 be built in her name to honor all the child victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The performances will be featured as part of the 16th Annual Ohana Arts Summer Festival & School taking place at the Kennedy Theatre on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa on July 12th and 13th. Immediately following the Honolulu performances, the cast and crew will embark on a performance tour to Hiroshima and Fukuoka, Japan by invitation from the city of Hiroshima. Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Though she and her family miraculously survived the explosion, the devastating effects of the bomb’s radiation would linger in their lives. Ten years later, Sadako was diagnosed with leukemia, a condition caused by the radiation exposure from the bombing. As her health deteriorated, Sadako found solace and hope in an ancient Japanese legend that said if a person folded 1,000 paper cranes, their wish would be granted. Determined to make a wish for peace and health, Sadako began folding cranes in the hospital, hoping that her effort would cure her. She folded over a thousand cranes, and though her wish for
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