"Farmers read an announcement on the community bulletin board declaring the start of the land reform in Saitama Prefecture, 24 June 1947. The epochal reform transformed a majority of cultivators from tenants into independent small-scale farmers, boosting agricultural production and eroding Socialist and Communist influence in the countryside (Mainichi)."

From: Takemae Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. New York: Continuum, 2002; 345.