Meet the diplomat in Seattle who's become a social media star by folding origami cranes

The origami cranes pour out of Whole Foods and Metropolitan Market bags, a Hammermill crate and a Häagen-Dazs box. More than 1,000 pile up on the table: hot pink cranes. Orange and yellow and green cranes. Cranes with stylized waves crashing along their wings, cranes patterned with wisteria and gold fans, cranes with constellations, cranes with chrysanthemums, cranes made from paper commemorating the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Hisao Inagaki, the consul general of Japan in Seattle, sits down next to the heap of paper birds dumped onto the table. The soft-spoken diplomat has folded a crane e...