World Origami Day 2025 shines a light on the beauty of Japanese paper art. Explore six captivating facts revealing how ...

Sensei Fumio Demura, the persona Pat Morita took on for "The Karate Kid," couldn't fold a single crane. But over time, he worked hard to fold over 5,000 cranes as a part of recovering from great ...

During his stay at Shands at the University of Florida, 29-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Joshua Abbott got a sense of peace from folding hundreds of origami cranes. And that was exactly what the ...

A simple origami crane has become one of the most recognised global symbols of peace, resilience, and remembrance, thanks to the moving story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing up the ...