Thousands of miles away from Earth, the three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) feel they have their hands tied when it comes to helping out the relief efforts underway in Japan, ...

When an unmanned Japanese cargo ship ends its mission in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere tonight, it will be carrying a few tokens of sympathy for earthquake victims in Japan: three paper cranes ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Burroughs & Saden children's librarian Sharon Breslow had a mission Wednesday. She called to passing people walking up and down the staircase. "Come sit," she said. Breslow sat behind a ...

Vincent Birch, a kindergarten student at M.W. Savage Elementary School, didn’t bring treats to school to celebrate his birthday. Instead he asked his classmates to make origami paper cranes to show ...

Japanese legend says 1,000 folded paper cranes strung together will lead to a wish granted by a crane, a holy creature. Rinko Yuki, 16, of the Thousand Paper Cranes, a multi-national student group of ...

What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami ...

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 ...

Hisao Inagaki, Japan’s consul general in Seattle, displays a crane he folded Aug. 2, 2023, in Seattle. He’s been folding an origami crane and recording a daily video, sending best wishes to Seattle ...

The cranes were folded by the space station's three-person crew and packed aboard Kounotori 2, a robotic Japanese cargo ship before it departed the space station yesterday (March 28). The astronauts ...