"During the early years of occupation, city dwellers went to the countryside to barter kimonos and other valuable for food. Here two boys fill a bag with freshly harvested potatoes while their parents negotiate the transaction. Farmers refuse to accept cash, made nearly worthless by inflation. June 1947 (Mainichi)."

From: Takemae Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. New York: Continuum, 2002; 77.