Near the A bomb building is a statue called the "Children's Peace Monument." It was erected in the memory a Junior High School girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died of an A-bomb disease (leukemia). As the story of Sadako and the Thousand Cranes goes, when Sadako became sick, she decided to fold a thousand cranes (a Japanese symbol of good luck and long life) in the hopes that they would bring her health back. When she died, Sadako's classmates decided to build a statue in her memory. The "Tower of a Thousand Cranes", as it is also called, is this beautiful statue of a girl holding a crane over her head. Nearby are thousands of brightly covered origami paper cranes in kiosks that people bring daily to place next to the Sadako statue.