Sadako Sasaki (??? ??, Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who was two years old during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Sasaki, who survived, became one of the most widely known hibakusha – a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person".
She is remembered through the story of the one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death, and is to this day a symbol of the innocent victims of nuclear warfare.