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 ...

The delicate and historic beauty of folded Japanese origami cranes is reflected in 10,000 cranes floating in The Museum of Boulder through September, representing the hundreds of thousands of lives ...

With squares of colored paper and nimble fingers, a group of high school students is teaching a lesson of hope, literally a thousand times over. According to Japanese legend, the gods grant a sick ...

Throughout April, Cranes of Yale hid thousands of paper cranes across campus and hosted origami workshops to promote interest in wildlife conservation with students. The Yale Birding Student ...

It is a Japanese tradition to fold 1,000 cranes for someone who is sick or has stumbled upon misfortune; the origami birds are said to bring health and prosperity to the downtrodden. Students at ...

In a gesture tied to Japanese culture, more than 200 people fashioned paper cranes in a fundraising effort Sunday in Vancouver’s Hough neighborhood. And before the five-hour event ended, nearly $2,000 ...

It’s a Japanese tradition that is said to bring longevity and happiness. And by almost any measure, Saeko Oyama is living proof that it works. Oyama, 76, is an expert in the ancient art of origami and ...