Modern girls were Japanese women who followed Westernized fashions and lifestyles in the period after World War I. Moga were Japan's equivalent of the English-speaking world's flappers, Germany's neue
1929 advertisement for the Shirokiya department store featuring actresses walking on the beach at Kamakura
Shizue Tatsuta was the stage name of Shizue Shiono, a Japanese actress who starred in silent movies. Born in Yamagata Prefecture, she briefly attended Japan Women's University but did not graduate. Mo