In those inter-war years, significant elements among the ranks of newly urbanized elite and middle-class women in the Kantou and Kansai regions, had, like their male counterparts, looked to Europe as the source of all that was modern and sophisticated. Yet while the occupation-driven social and cultural changes were unquestionably deep and enduring, they by no means eradicated the aesthetic influences of the pre-war era. This new culture drew heavily of course, on the influences of the American occupation, especially in the area of popular entertainment, sports and lifestyle-based consumption. Abstract In recent years, social historians and cultural studies scholars have begun to examine the manner in which post-war Japan simultaneously reconstructed and reimagined an urban youth culture.
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