General Douglas MacArthur, the Allied powers’ supreme commander overseeing Japan’s postwar transition, took seriously lessons learned from post-World War I treaties. Each person was allotted 297 grams of the rationed food a day. food ever released in Japan-22,250 tons of wheat flour and bagged rice. July 1946, Tokyo, Japan: A workman is shown handing out individual rations of the largest single amount of U.S.