"Plainclothes police round up roving bands of homeless children. War-displaced minors were a major source of petty crime. This boy, caught in a railway station at night, will be placed in an orphanage. Clutching a geta (wooden clog) in one hand, he protests angrily, but to no avail. 22 July 1947 (New York Times)."

From: Takemae Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. New York: Continuum, 2002; 417.