War and Sexual Desire Special Issue

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. The central portion ranges widely across foreign and wartime settings. Moscow, China, Southeast Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Java, and Siberia become settings for stories and reportage concerning soldiers, women attached to military communities, prostitution, captivity, same-sex desire, military sexual facilities, and the disruption of ordinary sexual relations by war. Several contributions adopt the form of personal testimony or purported documentary recollection, including the memoir of a woman who became the wife of a Chinese soldier, accounts concerning Japanese women in Manchuria, a report on southern military comfort facilities, and a lengthy Siberian prisoner-of-war hospital sketch. Other pieces turn historical figures and campaigns into explicitly erotic or sensational narratives, including features on Napoleon's soldiers and the sexual tactics attributed to Genghis Khan. Alongside these wartime narratives, the issue repeatedly shifts into other forms characteristic of Kitan Club. It includes commentary on masochism, male homosexuality, sexual psychology, prostitution, female pubic hair, and an extended fantasy concerning a human toilet. Short illustrated and fictional pieces appear between the longer articles, while the later pages move more decisively toward erotic fiction and popular culture. The serialized story Demonic Private Punishment centers punishment and coercive fantasy, while a prose feature on film star Machiko Kyo treats the actress as an object of popular erotic fascination. The closing section broadens the issue from modern warfare into historical erotic culture with an illustrated sequence on erotic Kabuki stories. Across the issue, documentary rhetoric and fantasy are deliberately interwoven: military history becomes a framework for discussions of prostitution, captivity, sexual violence, forbidden desire, and changing sexual customs, while photographs and drawings give these themes a strong visual dimension. The result is a dense early-postwar issue whose editorial identity rests on the intersection of sensational history, erotic imagination, sexual inquiry, and the emerging specialist culture of Japanese postwar erotic publishing.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
War and Sexual Desire Pictorial Collection	Uncredited	—	2 –17
The Balkan War	Uncredited	21–38	18 –35
Moscow's Bewitching Flower	Fujita Seiji	39–45	36 –42
The Tragedy of Corpse Violation: Salome and Sadism	Takano Yasuke	46–47	43 –44
Notes of a Woman Who Became a Chinese Soldier's Wife	Tajima Yumiko	48–53	45 –50
The Chief Engineer's Madam: Siberian Sexual Landscape	Anabuki Takeshi	54–57	51 –54
The Tragedy of the Chastity Commando Unit	Sugiyama Kiyoshi	58–65	55 –62
Women of the Ports	Shimoyama Yu	66–68	63 –65
War and Masochism	Akasaka Tsuyoshi	69	66
The Lama's Erotic Buddha	Awagaoka Kikuo	70–74	67 –71
How to Solve Chinese Chess Mating Problems	Ohashi Kyoshi	75	72
Napoleon's Soldiers	Matsutani Shigeji	76–81	73 –78
Army Special Seventh Heaven	Manabe Ginkichi	82–83	79 –80
Genghis Khan's Sexual Tactics	Nakazawa Kohei	84–93	81 –90
Pacific War: Erotic Reminiscences from the Dust of Battle	Takahara Junzo	94–95	91 –92
Letter from a Male Homosexual	Nanri Fumihiko	96–97	93 –94
Women's Combat Picture Scroll: The Origin of Minowa Inari	Masuda Shiro	98–99	95 –96
Women's Army Campaign Record	Kahara Daisuke	100–101	97 –98
The Chastity of a Japanese Woman Taken in Manchuria at the End of the War	Ikeuchi Hakuyo	102–103	99 –100
The Volunteer Nurse of Love	Ito Chuzo	104–105	101 –102
Bengawan Solo: A Tragic Romance Around the Java War	Imura Yukio	106–109	103 –106
Breaking Through the Female-Body Patrol Line	Naniwa Saburo	110–111	107 –108
Stories from the Southern Special Comfort Facilities	Mishima Shota	112–114	109 –111
The Bewitching Dancing Princess	Uncredited	115	112
Two Soldiers	Watanabe Sakuichi	116–119	113 –116
Siberian Prisoner-of-War Record: Sketches of Telma Hospital	Hanamoto Shiro	120–130	117 –127
The Female Spy Dances	Uncredited	131	128
War and Prostitutes: The Relationship Between War and Women	Tamori Hiroshi	132–135	129 –132
Notes on Male Homosexuality	Asakura Fumiro	136–137	133 –134
The Human-Toilet Fantasist	Ninomiya Chuichi	138–145	135 –142
Demonic Private Punishment	Machi Keisuke	146–155	143 –152
The Physiology of Female Pubic Hair: Are Hairy Women More Lustful?	Tanaka Yoshio	156–157	153 –154
Old-Time Frontline Erotic Gleanings, Part Three	Shimode Shoichi	158–159	155 –156
Screen Star Novel: Machiko Kyo	Natsume Chiyo	160–169	157 –166
Lewd Kabuki Illustrated Tales	Midori Takehiko	170–179	167 –176

The issue contains a formal printed contents spread on PDF page 4. The opening visual material is grouped as a single pictorial entry because it functions as a coordinated frontispiece to the War and Sexual Desire special issue. Several short substantive pieces appearing between formally listed features, including The Lama's Erotic Buddha, the Chinese chess column, Women's Army Campaign Record, The Volunteer Nurse of Love, The Bewitching Dancing Princess, and The Female Spy Dances, are included as article-level entries because they are independently titled sections. Romanization of several contributor names is moderately uncertain because the scans provide names in Japanese characters without reading aids. The final PDF page is publication and submission back matter rather than a substantive article.