Modern girls ('modan gaaru'; also shortened to 'moga') were Japanese women who followed Westernized fashions and lifestyles in the 1920s. These moga were Japan's equivalent of America's flappers; India's kallege ladki; Germany's neue Frauen; France's garconnes; or China's modeng xiaojie.

The period was characterized by the emergence of working class young women with access to money and consumer goods. Modern girls were depicted as living in the cities; being financially and emotionally independent and choosing their own suitors. Pictures From History