A young woman is hiking 1,000km to raise funds for children cancer patients

Fritz holds a chain of colourful paper cranes in her hand in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. — EVA FRITZ/dpa

WHEN the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945, Sadako Sasaki was two years old. Despite only being 2km away from the blast at the time, she survived the atomic inferno.

Japan surrendered on Aug 15, 1945 and after the end of World War II, Sadako seemed like any of her peers, happily going to school and loving sports in particular.