Nihon Ganbare!: Tsurus of Hope

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Published: April 12, 2011 Modified: April 11, 2025

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Nihon Ganbare!: Tsurus of Hope

Symbol of friendship (Symbol of hope)

Each crane represents the wish of the entire Nikkei community in Peru for the speedy recovery of the Japanese people. We are with you, Japan.
-- Date: April 2011 Place: Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

Colorful hope

More than 10 thousand cranes have arrived so far (April 2011) to the Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center, on whose walls there are already several senbatsuru that express solidarity with the brothers of Japan. -- Date: April 2011 Place: Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

Kooreisha join forces

Not only did they dare to make the paper cranes, they also wanted to place them in the urn located in the entrance hall of the Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center. Moved by the desire that their message of encouragement reach their homeland, the Kooreisha actively participated in this campaign. -- Date: April 2011 Place: Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian-Japanese Association

Mission accomplished

Gathered at the Elena Kohatsu Library of the Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center, a group of kooreisha and young people came together to make hundreds of tsurus together. They also decided to send a message to their brothers in Japan. Nihon ganbare! -- Date: March 2011 Place: Elena Kohatsu Library - Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian-Japanese Association

Everyone to help

Many people came with their paper tsurus, but they had to be put on strings to make the senbatusuru and hang them on the walls of the Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center. Thank you to everyone who helped with this task! -- Date: April 2011 Place: Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

Making more tsurus

The kooreisha of the Jinnai Center of the Peruvian-Japanese Association actively participate in the elaboration of the tsurus . -- Date: March 2011 Place: Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center (Lima, Peru) Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

Senbatsuru!

Like many students from different schools, the children from CEINE Santa Beatriz (Jishuryo) make paper cranes. -- Date: April 2011 Place: Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

Let's get to work

The kooreisha of the Jinnai Center of the Peruvian-Japanese Association actively participate in the elaboration of the tsurus . -- Date: March 2011 Place: Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center (Lima, Peru) Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

¿Hacemos un tsuru?

Two young visitors to the Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center (Lima, Peru) place their origami cranes in the urn set up to receive the tsurus from the Contigo Japón campaign. -- Date: March 2011 Place: Peruvian-Japanese Cultural Center (Lima, Peru) Photo: © Peruvian Japanese Association

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Traditionally, the crane is considered a sacred bird in Japan and a symbol of long life. Origami cranes are used by the Japanese as symbolic objects to grant wishes, prayers and requests, as well as to represent good wishes. Taking up this custom, the Peruvian-Japanese Association invited the Peruvian community to make paper tsurus and join this initiative called Nihon Ganbare! (Cheer up, Japan!), as part of the With You Japan campaign. The tsurus thus represent the desire to provide comfort to the Japanese people in these difficult times, as well as the hope that they will renew their strength so that they can continue working together for the prompt recovery of Japan.