This period is very broad and includes a ton of different experiences, as you’re asking about a span of nearly 80 years that include such huge social upheaval and change in culture that it would be very difficult to describe them all in one post without breaking all 10 of my fingers typing and getting enough paper cuts to qualify as self harm by the time I am done answering for you.

Is there a more specific time frame you would like to know about? Some of my primary source research includes a Taisho and Showa era housewife’s diary, and the diaries of 2 women deployed to factories in WWII. I’ve also studied primary and secondary sources on large swaths of this time frame’s youth, focused specifically on Mobo and Moga (modern boys and modern girls) in the later half of the time you are describing.

So what’ll it be?