Croatia's members of parliament and the Croatian-Japanese Culture and Economy Society will thus join the international peace drive which traditionally marks the anniversary of the 6 August 1945 Hiroshima bombing.
The atomic bomb explosion killed more than 220,000 people, while a much higher number died of the consequences of radiation. Among them was the 11-year-old Sadako who, while in hospital, tried to make 1,000 paper cranes so that, according to legend, a wish could come true.
Sadako started making the cranes in a wish to get well, but subsequently dedicated them to world peace. However, her efforts were cut short by death. She managed to make 644 cranes. In her memory, Sadako's friends set up a paper crane club, a drive later joined by pupils of schools from around the world who erected the children's peace monument in Hiroshima three year's after her death.
Pupils from Croatia joined the drive in 2005.
The president of the Croatian-Japanese parliamentary friendship group, Tonci Tadic, urged MPs to promote the drive in schools in their communities so that children could learn about what happened in Hiroshima and the consequences of nuclear weapons.