Kitan Club
June 1952
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Summary
The June 1952 issue of Kitan Club is organized as a special issue on war and sexual desire, combining sensational historical writing, erotic fiction, memoir-like testimony, sexual commentary, illustration, and photography. Its opening pages establish the theme visually through harem imagery, wartime scenes, images of sexual violence, and a photographic sequence of female restraint and torment. The large Balkan War feature then develops the issue’s central premise through accounts of sexual disorder, coercion, military occupation, and violence associated with warfare.
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Table of Contents 35 items
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War and Sexual Desire Pictorial Collection
Summary
An opening visual portfolio combining harem imagery, scenes of wartime sexual violence, and photographs of a restrained and tormented woman, establishing the special issue's intersection of war, erotic spectacle, and domination.
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The Balkan War
Summary
A lengthy illustrated feature treating the Balkan Wars as a setting for sexual disorder, coercion, violence, and military occupation, mixing historical framing with sensational erotic anecdote.
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Moscow's Bewitching Flower
Summary
A Russia-set narrative that uses Moscow and revolutionary or wartime imagery as the setting for erotic intrigue and sexual danger.
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The Tragedy of Corpse Violation: Salome and Sadism
Summary
A short sensational essay linking the Salome tradition with corpse violation, sadism, death, and eroticized violence.
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Notes of a Woman Who Became a Chinese Soldier's Wife
Summary
A first-person memoir-style narrative describing a Japanese woman's relationship with a Chinese soldier amid the disruptions of wartime and postwar life.
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The Chief Engineer's Madam: Siberian Sexual Landscape
Summary
A Siberia-set wartime or captivity vignette focused on a senior engineer and a woman associated with his environment, using the setting to explore improvised sexual relations and desire.
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The Tragedy of the Chastity Commando Unit
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A sensational wartime narrative concerning a military group and the sexual vulnerability of women around it, framing war through violence, chastity, and coercive sexual danger.
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Women of the Ports
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A survey-style piece on women encountered in different ports, connecting maritime mobility with prostitution, sexual commerce, and changing local customs.
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War and Masochism
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A compact essay relating wartime experience and violence to masochistic psychology and erotic response.
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The Lama's Erotic Buddha
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An exoticized narrative linking Buddhist or lamaistic imagery with sexuality, religious taboo, and erotic fantasy in a non-Japanese setting.
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How to Solve Chinese Chess Mating Problems
Summary
A short instructional and puzzle column explaining mating problems in Chinese chess and presenting example positions.
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Napoleon's Soldiers
Summary
A historical-sensational account of Napoleonic soldiers that focuses on army life, sexual behavior, women, and the effects of campaigning on ordinary morality.
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Army Special Seventh Heaven
Summary
A short wartime article describing a specially organized military sexual facility and the institutional management of soldiers' sexual needs.
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Genghis Khan's Sexual Tactics
Summary
A historical-erotic feature portraying Genghis Khan's campaigns through conquest, sexuality, women, and the organization of military and domestic life.
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Pacific War: Erotic Reminiscences from the Dust of Battle
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A reminiscence-style piece connecting Pacific War experience with sexual encounters and memories of desire amid military life.
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Letter from a Male Homosexual
Summary
A letter or testimonial addressing male same-sex desire and the personal difficulties associated with homosexual identity and relationships.
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Women's Combat Picture Scroll: The Origin of Minowa Inari
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An illustrated historical or legendary tale centered on conflict involving women, combining martial narrative with eroticized female combat imagery.
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Women's Army Campaign Record
Summary
A wartime narrative concerning women's military participation and the experiences of female personnel within a campaign setting.
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The Chastity of a Japanese Woman Taken in Manchuria at the End of the War
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A wartime testimony-style account of a Japanese woman in Manchuria at the end of the war, emphasizing sexual danger, coercion, and the language of chastity.
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The Volunteer Nurse of Love
Summary
A story concerning a wartime or military nurse whose caregiving role becomes entangled with erotic attachment and sexual relations.
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Bengawan Solo: A Tragic Romance Around the Java War
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A Java-set wartime romance built around separation, danger, and erotic attachment, using the Bengawan Solo setting to frame a transnational tragic love story.
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Breaking Through the Female-Body Patrol Line
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A wartime comic-erotic narrative in which military surveillance and the female body become the basis for sexual humor, danger, and illicit movement.
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Stories from the Southern Special Comfort Facilities
Summary
A documentary-style account of Japanese military comfort facilities in the south, describing their organization, the women associated with them, and the sexual lives of soldiers.
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The Bewitching Dancing Princess
Summary
A short erotic entertainment vignette focused on an alluring dancer and the spectacle surrounding her performance.
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Two Soldiers
Summary
A wartime narrative centered on two soldiers whose experiences are filtered through sexuality, human weakness, and the moral dislocations produced by military life.
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Siberian Prisoner-of-War Record: Sketches of Telma Hospital
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A lengthy memoir-style sketch of life in a Siberian prisoner-of-war hospital, describing institutional routines, bathing, medical inspection, illness, staff, prisoners, and the intimate conditions of captivity.
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The Female Spy Dances
Summary
A short sensational piece about a female spy subjected to coercion and interrogation while maintaining her refusal to confess.
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War and Prostitutes: The Relationship Between War and Women
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An essay examining the recurring relationship between warfare, prostitution, women, and the sexual demands created around military populations.
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Notes on Male Homosexuality
Summary
An explanatory essay on male homosexuality that discusses same-sex desire, sexual behavior, and contemporary understandings of homosexual men.
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The Human-Toilet Fantasist
Summary
An extended fetish narrative framed as an unusual documentary account of a man obsessed with fantasies involving the human body as a toilet, combining confession, voyeurism, bodily functions, and sexual fixation.
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Demonic Private Punishment
Summary
The second installment of an adult mystery series, presenting a sensational narrative in which punishment, violence, sexual coercion, and criminal intrigue are central dramatic devices.
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The Physiology of Female Pubic Hair: Are Hairy Women More Lustful?
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A sexological discussion of female pubic hair that considers bodily variation and the popular belief that greater body hair indicates stronger sexual desire.
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Old-Time Frontline Erotic Gleanings, Part Three
Summary
A collection of short wartime erotic anecdotes concerning soldiers, camp life, women, and improvised sexual arrangements at the front.
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Screen Star Novel: Machiko Kyo
Summary
A fictionalized or semi-fictionalized popular-culture feature centered on actress Machiko Kyo, presenting her public image and imagined private or romantic life through prose and star imagery.
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Lewd Kabuki Illustrated Tales
Summary
An illustrated historical-erotic feature recounting sexual anecdotes and scandals associated with Kabuki actors, theaters, and pleasure culture, linking theatrical history with erotic folklore.
Highlights
- The opening pictorial material combines harem imagery, illustrated wartime sexual violence, and a photographic sequence of female restraint and torment, establishing the issue's visual treatment of war and erotic domination. (PDF pp. 2–17).
- The extended Balkan War feature uses the conflict as a framework for sensational accounts of sexual disorder, military violence, coercion, and wartime relationships. (PDF pp. 18–35).
- The memoir-style account of a woman who became the wife of a Chinese soldier is one of several pieces that present wartime sexuality through purported personal testimony. (PDF pp. 45–50).
- A cluster of military-history features on Napoleon, an army special facility, and Genghis Khan transforms campaigns and military institutions into narratives about sexuality and soldiers. (PDF pp. 73–90).
- The issue devotes substantial space to Japanese wartime experiences in Asia, including women's military service, the fate of Japanese women in Manchuria, Java, and southern military comfort facilities. (PDF pp. 97–111).
- The lengthy Telma Hospital sketch depicts life within a Siberian prisoner-of-war medical environment and forms one of the issue's largest documentary-style contributions. (PDF pp. 117–127).
- The later issue includes separate discussions of male homosexuality, prostitution, and the physiology of female pubic hair, shifting from war reportage toward sexual inquiry and fetish-oriented subjects. (PDF pp. 129–134, 153–154).
- Demonic Private Punishment is a substantial serialized erotic story centered on punishment, coercion, and sensational fantasy. (PDF pp. 143–152).
- The final illustrated Kabuki feature connects contemporary erotic publishing with older theatrical and sexual culture through prose and prominent drawings. (PDF pp. 167–176).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akasaka Tsuyoshi
- Anabuki Takeshi
- Asakura Fumiro
- Awagaoka Kikuo
- Fujita Seiji
- Hanamoto Shiro
- Ikeuchi Hakuyo
- Imura Yukio
- Ito Chuzo
- Kahara Daisuke
- Machi Keisuke
- Manabe Ginkichi
- Masuda Shiro
- Matsutani Shigeji
- Midori Takehiko
- Mishima Shota
- Nakazawa Kohei
- Naniwa Saburo
- Nanri Fumihiko
- Natsume Chiyo
- Ninomiya Chuichi
- Ohashi Kyoshi
- Shimode Shoichi
- Shimoyama Yu
- Sugiyama Kiyoshi
- Tajima Yumiko
- Takahara Junzo
- Takano Yasuke
- Tamori Hiroshi
- Tanaka Yoshio
- Watanabe Sakuichi
