Shōwa Modan
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Shōwa Modan (昭和モダン?), or "Shōwa's modernness," is the culture of the compromise between Japanese and European styles that started at the beginning of the Shōwa period. Shōwa began after the Great Kanto Earthquake in Taishō period, its social condition was the times when the May 15 Incident and February 26 Incident happened and the war seems to be begin.
In those days, life style was changed rapidly, Japanese women begun to put on clothes and hat in contrast with the Kimono and prior Japanese hairstyle. The woman conductor of the bus was called basu gāru, put on the most advanced clothes, and became moga, or modern Girl
Houses were built along railway lines. People living there did some shopping at the department store of the terminal, and called in at the restaurant or the cafe in the return from it in the holiday.
