The Japanese economy took an upturn with the Korean War and procurement by the United States and United Nations of supplies in Japan. In this manga, "New Spring," cartoonist Ono Sasae, September 1950, parodies the hard-working Japanese family and search for material prosperity in the months following the outbreak of war in the Korean peninsula. The end of bad times is portrayed by three figures: a laborer, a schoolboy son, and fashionable wife. However, behind the images are the shadows of what they were just after the war: a veteran, a homeless boy, and a prostitute. Were the Japanese, Ono seems to ask, getting fat on the misery of former colonials?

From: "Senryō jidai (Occupation Period)". Vol. 9. Zusetsu: Shōwa no rekishi (Illustrated Shōwa History). Ed. Shōwa no rekishi kankōkai henshū. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1979-1980; 176.