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 ...

Eric Billingsley holds one of his candles containing scrap paper from a former origami crane in the town of Kitahiroshima in Hiroshima Prefecture. (Mainichi) KITAHIROSHIMA, Hiroshima -- A ...

For a decade, the Daisho-in Buddhist temple on Miyajima island, facing Hiroshima, has held ritual burnings of the millions of origami cranes sent to the city each year. The ceremony is intended to ...