This monument honors Sadako Sasaki and all of the other children who were affected by the atomic bomb. In the statue Sadako is holding a crane as it was said that she died while trying to fold 1,000 cranes to wish for health after she had been diagnosed with leukemia as a result of the bomb radiation. Here it is common to see families and children placing their own senbazuru (1,000 cranes) to wish for peace.