"Cheaply constructed, makeshift dwellings like these in Tokyo were called barakku, or barrack, in reference to poor military housing; they sprang up to provide shelter in areas devastated by bombing. U.S. Army Signal Corps. (Courtesy of the MacArthur Memorial.)"

From: Allinson, Gary. Japan's Postwar History (2nd Ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004; 49.