"Family members queue up to receive food. No rice is to be had, only a 10-day ration of soy beans. Until US emergency food stocks arrived from Manila in early 1946, Japan faced mass starvation. 15 September 1945 (Mainichi)."

From: Takemae Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. New York: Continuum, 2002; 72.