Aioi Bridge
With Japan’s defeat in World War II, Shikoku was one of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers and personnel interned by the Soviet Union in Manchuria and Siberia. He repatriated in 1948. Gorō had vivid memories of seeing his hometown for the first time since the bombing: “I pressed my forehead against the bus window and looked out into the darkness. . . Seeing the T-shaped bridge, I knew that I was back home.” He sketched Aioibashi’s distinct shape in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing.