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A sensational illustrated exposé portraying the supposed “red erotic offensive” as a communist strategy of sexual corruption, social infiltration, and political subversion. Presented through dramatized conversations, case narratives, and cartoons, it links ero...

An illustrated erotic-comic fiction in which ambitious men and women pursue romance, money, status, and sexual advantage through flirtation, deception, and social maneuvering. The episodes follow characters including 好太 and 澄江 through encounters involving...

A journalistic tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai and Janjan Yokocho, documenting its food stalls, inexpensive eateries, pachinko parlors, cafés, bathhouses, and surrounding street life. The feature combines social observation with illustrated scenes of working-class l...

A comic serialized fiction follows a mysterious, physically imposing man whose strange behavior and encounters with women, employers, and military figures produce farcical complications. The narrative expands into an eccentric wartime and secret-mission advent...

A reportage-style account describes a group of Korean women and children secretly crossing by boat to Tsushima, portraying their poverty, fear, concealment, and efforts to survive amid postwar border surveillance. It also follows the police response and the br...

An erotic narrative set during a newlywed couple’s first night at a hot-spring inn. Through conversations, observation, and sexual encounters, it explores honeymoon expectations, marital intimacy, and the atmosphere of commercial hot-spring travel.

An erotic melodrama centered on Oden and Sakichi in a hot-spring village, where desire, seduction, deception, and social vulnerability lead to jealousy and violent conflict. The story combines explicit bathhouse and lodging scenes with pursuit, betrayal, and r...

An essay examines cases of lovers who died together or attempted suicide, discussing romantic attachment, despair, social circumstances, and the varied forms of “love death.” It also considers how such incidents were reported and interpreted in relation to gen...

A long illustrated satirical serial built around colloquial conversations among shopkeepers, workers, couples, and other urban characters. Through comic scenes of shopping, entertainment, romance, domestic life, popular amusements, and references to military e...

An erotic serialized narrative following a company employee on business travels between Japanese cities, where workplace relationships, money, and personal ambitions intersect with romantic and sexual encounters. The story combines travelogue-like episodes wit...

An erotic essay and anecdotal tale centered on the term “remarkable thing” (逸物), discussing its suggestive etymology and its association with exceptional male sexual endowment. A historical or legendary episode involving a sexually charged encounter is accom...

A humorous collection of erotic anecdotes attributed to wartime military life, describing soldiers’ encounters, barracks culture, and sexual adventures around the battlefront. The piece uses comic reminiscence and anecdotal storytelling to portray masculine ca...

An erotic grotesque fiction set around the remote Heike Valley, following encounters among men and women whose desires, deceptions, and bodily transformations unfold in rural and hot-spring environments. The narrative combines supernatural or fairy-like motifs...

A serialized erotic fiction centered on Masako and Kotaro, whose marriage is unsettled by jealousy, emotional conflict, and suspected or actual infidelity. The narrative develops through tense domestic confrontations and scenes of sexual domination and coercio...

An illustrated erotic narrative portraying Mrs. Sumire as a married woman whose beauty and sexuality attract male attention and lead to seduction, adultery, and confrontations involving her husband and other men. The feature also includes prominent erotic illu...

A surreal erotic fiction in which a drifting man encounters strange women, rooms, paintings, and episodes that blur waking experience with dream and fantasy. The narrative emphasizes voyeuristic observation, pursuit, shifting identities, and unsettling urban e...

A collection of anecdotal discussions and purported case histories concerning the sexual conduct of contemporary university students. The episodes portray student encounters with older married women, domestic servants, young women, and other partners, framed t...

A literaryized “true story” follows the fortunes of a courtesan in the pleasure quarters, depicting her encounters with clients, shifting romantic attachments, and the emotional and social costs of her constrained life. The narrative emphasizes the glamour, er...

Set in the port town of Habu, this romantic narrative centers on a returning sailor who reconnects with a former beloved, now enmeshed in marriage and domestic obligations. Their renewed attraction develops amid drinking-house and restaurant culture, gossip, f...

An erotic story about a Japanese military doctor stationed in a remote mainland village who becomes fascinated by a beautiful woman attached to a women’s relief unit. Medical observation, wartime displacement, and successive intimate encounters turn the doctor...

An erotic narrative centered on Ryūji’s growing fixation on the alluring Mitsue, whose appearance and behavior are repeatedly associated with a female serpent. His fantasies and encounters conflict with domestic relationships, while theatrical and broadcast-wo...

A sensationalized crime narrative about the brutal murder of a shopkeeping widow in a coastal fishing community, followed by the discovery of her mutilated body and the police investigation into the suspected killer. The account emphasizes the victim’s vulnera...

A serialized first-person-style memoir of Sumiko, a young woman whose working life, financial hardship, and relationships lead her into sexual exploitation and a changing understanding of desire, intimacy, and independence. Episodes depict her encounters with...

An erotic fiction narrative follows Nobuo and Kazue/Katsuko amid jealousy, betrayal, and coercive encounters in a shrine-maiden household. The story centers on confinement, punishment, bondage, and escalating sadomasochistic domination in an underground room.

A travel feature surveys Kagoshima’s lively commercial and entertainment quarters, describing shops, restaurants, nightlife, local residents, and encounters with visitors. It also presents regional speech, customs, scenery, hot springs, and postwar urban devel...

An Edo-period erotic mystery centers on a stolen or incriminating pillow picture and the murder of a woman. Through interrogations, suspicious behavior, physical clues, and discussion of the picture’s details, the investigator gradually reconstructs the crime...

A social-realist domestic tale follows the strained marriage of Heikichi and Sayo, a working-class couple facing poverty, jealousy, sexual tensions, and financial instability. Their household troubles are intensified by gambling, outside attractions, and the u...

An investigative feature examines film and stage actor-training schools in Osaka, focusing on their recruitment advertisements, entrance fees, instruction, employment promises, and relationships with production companies. Through reported cases and undercover-...

A satirical erotic tale about Ōtsuki’s troubled marital and sexual relationships, involving wives, mistresses, deception, and comic domestic schemes that ultimately lead toward a contrived happy ending. The story uses bedroom intrigue and sexual anxieties to p...

A comic social satire follows Kaneda, an aspiring company man who learns to exploit corporate entertainment, expense accounts, female acquaintances, and office connections in pursuit of advancement. His adventures depict the emerging salaryman culture through...

A serialized political novel set around Nagatachō follows Diet members, ministers, and female secretaries through factional maneuvering, money politics, ambition, and sexual intrigue. Its successive episodes satirize the hidden relationships and corrupt dealin...

This crime-romance fiction opens with the discovery of the bodies of a young woman and a student-like man in a quiet suburban woodland, apparently dead together in a love suicide. Police questioning and narrative retrospection reconstruct the couple’s turbulen...

An illustrated erotic narrative follows Yoshiko and the men around her through seduction, domestic intrigue, sexual encounters, and shifting power within a household. The accompanying hanging-chart-style drawings visualize the story’s erotic scenes and period...

A first-person memoir recounts the author’s years as a prostitute, describing clients, working routines, sexual negotiations, and the emotional and bodily experience of commercial sex. The piece also reflects on changing desire, livelihood, and memories of lif...

An erotic fiction sequence centered on gambling, wagers, and the shifting relationships between men and women. The narrative portrays sexual awakening, seduction, jealousy, betrayal, and manipulation in nightlife and other intimate urban settings.

An erotic urban narrative involving a woman whose encounters are arranged or complicated through public telephones and secret communications. The story explores anonymity, sexual intrigue, deception, and shifting power between women and men.

A dramatized account of abuse by Japan’s Special Higher Police, depicting interrogation, physical torture, intimidation, and sexual violence against detainees. The narrative emphasizes coerced confessions, institutional cruelty, and the lasting psychological e...

Continuation of a serialized erotic story in which jealousy, suspicion, and troubled relationships lead to scenes of coercive sexual domination and bondage. Dialogue and embedded anecdotes frame the characters’ fascination with restraint, violence, and unconve...

An erotic comic-fiction narrative centered on Yuki and other characters whose encounters involve sexual teasing, voyeurism, exposure, and repeated fascination with the buttocks. The prose combines dialogue, escalating embarrassment, fetishistic humor, and illu...

An illustrated, sensationalized account of women associated with an Indian royal court, framed as a “secret history” and blending pseudo-historical exposition with stories of palace women, rulers, servants, marriage, childbirth, and sexual relations. The featu...