Evelyn Skye says her 10th book, The Incredible Kindness of Paper, is an important story right now with its roots in human ...

My path to creating 1,000 origami cranes began in an unlikely place: a Japanese mystery novel. I read “A Death in Tokyo,” by Keigo Higashino, at the end of August.

Over 3,000 origami cranes are on display at the Iowa State Fair, honoring the 65th anniversary of Iowa’s sister-state ...

A local organization is connecting Iowans to Japan one origami crane at a time. Teodora Mitov reports.

Over 3,000 origami cranes are on display at the Iowa State Fair, honoring the 65th anniversary of Iowa's sister-state ...

At a hillside temple, a monk in saffron robes blows a refrain on a conch and begins chanting prayers as thousands of origami cranes donated to Hiroshima burn. For a decade, the Daisho-in Buddhist ...

The second life of Hiroshima's origami cranesAnd since 2015, the ash from the burned cranes has been used to glaze ceramic incense burners and candle holders, including one given to Ukrainian ...

We arranged our 300 origami cranes in a rainbow gradient on the living room floor where they were soon joined by our curious cat, Amber. The playfulness of the photos belied the somber reality.

Origami cranes are cool, but do you know what’s cooler? Origami cranes dancing to the beat. That’s the challenge [Basami Sentaku] took on when he created Dancing Paper (YouTube link). Y… ...

What was meant to be a 100-day project of transforming paper into beautiful origami cranes turned out to be much more than that for artist Cristian Marianciuc. The Romanian-born translator created ...

He said his students started folding the origami cranes April 27, just two days after the earthquake. On Tuesday, another earthquake hit Nepal, killing dozens more.