"A typical rural farm slum on the outskirts of Tokyo: one kind of place from which many of the amateur teen-age prostitutes... came from in the 1940s."

From: Bennet, John. Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir. Portfolio 14, Image No. 54, http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/2_4_photos.html (10 January 2006).