Participate in Asia Society's 1,000 Cranes for Hope project by joining our Japan Outreach Initiative Coordinator, Nina Shimaguchi, in a live step-by-step tutorial for folding an origami crane, or ...

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 1,000 ...

My children taught me how to fold origami cranes. They learned years ago from a Japanese babysitter named Jiro Hatano, who happened to be one of the smartest, kindest and most gentle people I’ve ever ...