Article Translations

A dramatized account of Ikeda Kamegorō, the notorious Taishō-era criminal known as “Kinkei no Kame.” The narrative follows his violent crimes, robberies, disguises and escapes, the police investigation and pursuit across western Japan, and his eventual apprehe...

An illustrated Edo-period erotic crime tale follows a group of men who abduct and exploit women in boats, bathhouses, and pleasure-quarter settings. The narrative dwells on coercion, bodily display, tattooing, and grotesque sexual spectacle, with recurring con...

The third installment of this erotic supernatural mystery follows Akaboshi Jirō and his wife as their troubled domestic and sexual relationship becomes entangled with a witch-like figure, occult manipulation, grotesque mannequins, and disturbing dream imagery....

A dramatized true-crime account of the murder of a driver in Tsukishima, tracing the discovery of the body, police inquiries, witness testimony, clues, and the pursuit and capture of the suspects. The narrative emphasizes investigative persistence, disguises a...

A correspondence and advice column addressing readers’ concerns about male same-sex attraction, romantic relationships, marriage, sexual anxiety, and social adjustment. Fujii Akira responds to individual case histories, discussing emotional and sexual developm...

An illustrated true-crime account follows a violent nighttime incident in a rural community and the police investigation that reconstructs what happened. Blood, bodily-fluid traces, wounds, footprints, testimony, and alibi checks gradually undermine the initia...

A conversational salon narrative follows women meeting in cafés, beauty salons, and private settings while discussing fashion, cosmetics, travel, romance, and relationships with other women. Through lively dialogue and illustrated scenes, it depicts lesbian so...

An illustrated pulp-fiction narrative follows Yoshida Senichi, a Japanese serviceman detained in postwar Saigon, as he repeatedly escapes confinement and moves through a dangerous landscape of military authorities, civilians, and clandestine shelters. His enco...

A serialized, illustrated collection of comic and unsettling case narratives about distorted romantic and marital relationships. Through dialogues involving spouses, lovers, parents, and alleged sexual deviants, it explores abnormal desire, domestic conflict,...

A dramatized true-crime casebook feature centered on the murder of nineteen-year-old Fumiko during a typhoon, when floodwater and chaotic conditions help conceal an assault and strangulation. The narrative follows witnesses, police investigators, documentary e...

A reconstructed murder-case investigation set in the Shiga Highlands, presented through an extended dialogue between investigators, journalists, and medical experts. The article examines witness statements, the victim’s clothing and bodily injuries, bloodstain...

An illustrated detective mystery about a dancer found dead under suspicious circumstances. Police investigate the room, physical evidence, witness statements, and conflicting alibis while readers are invited to identify the murderer from the clues.

A documentary-style true-crime account of a suspected serial wife murderer, reconstructed from police records, witness testimony, interrogations, and forensic examination of a woman’s corpse discovered in the ruins of postwar Shibuya. The narrative follows the...

A young woman travels to Kagoshima to stay with her married sister, only to become entangled in a violent family mystery after the sister’s husband is found murdered and his body concealed. Detective questioning, conflicting testimony, and a disturbing dream g...

A forensic crime report describing the examination of a woman’s corpse after rape and murder. The narrative explains how autopsy findings, bodily evidence, witness accounts, and investigative reasoning are used to reconstruct the assault and identify the perpe...

An illustrated true-crime account of a married woman who is abducted and later found dead, followed by the police investigation into her movements, associates, and killer. Physical traces, witness testimony, and interrogation gradually expose the circumstances...

An illustrated erotic fiction narrative set within a touring theater troupe, where rehearsals, backstage rivalries, and performances become entangled with sexual manipulation and coercive relationships. The story follows the narrator’s interactions with actres...

A memoir of Japanese women in wartime Shanghai, describing terrorism, insecurity, military and police surveillance, and the vulnerability of expatriate civilians. It recounts separate cases involving a Japanese waitress and a married woman, emphasizing violenc...

A detailed account of Japanese women subjected to abduction, confinement, intimidation, and sexual violence in Shanghai. Presented through survivor testimony, the article follows several women’s encounters with groups of men, their attempts to resist or escape...

The first part of a literary tale follows Mukoyama, a married company employee whose concealed attraction to men leads him into relationships marked by secrecy, longing, jealousy, and social risk. Set amid urban parks, hotels, offices, and nightlife, the narra...

In this autobiographical essay, Minamikawa Kazuko recounts wartime experiences in North Borneo, including military occupation, imprisonment, invasive examinations, and sexualized violence, and connects these memories to her practice of drawing punishment and t...

An essayistic installment examining masochism through female authority, erotic punishment, bondage, whipping, and related fantasies. It combines personal and literary examples with discussion of Japanese and foreign terminology, the history of corporal punishm...

A first-person autobiographical account tracing the author’s masochistic imagination to childhood experiences of poverty, parental violence, humiliation, and bodily restraint. Recollections of beatings, binding, forced exposure, and later eroticized memories a...

An autobiographical essay in which Kyōko reflects on her marriage, sexuality, bodily experiences, pregnancy, and changing self-image. She discusses unconventional sexual practices, bodily control and experimentation, artistic and literary representations of wo...

A reader-facing notices and listings section combining agency information with announcements of photographic collections, special selections, and recent or forthcoming magazine contents. It functions as a circulation and community guide for readers interested...

A four-part photographic collage titled “A Parade of the Beauty of Bondage,” presenting numerous staged images of people restrained with ropes, garments, and furniture in varied indoor poses. The feature emphasizes visual variety and composition within bondage...

A reader-facing index of recent Kitan Club issues, listing article and photographic-feature titles alongside contributors and translators. It functions primarily as magazine navigation and an overview of the publication’s serialized and recurring content.

A first-person erotic narrative about an isolated young man whose encounters with Eiko develop into coercive bondage, beatings, and other forms of sadomasochistic abuse. The story combines adolescent sexual awakening with escalating domination and psychologica...

A first-person erotic confession recounting a woman’s experiences of willing submission, bondage, humiliation, and physical domination in relationships with men. The narrative presents servitude and pain as intertwined with desire, emotional dependence, shame,...

This installment of the erotic serial follows Sayuri and the people around Murayama, Matsue, Kifune, and Yusaku as jealousy, deception, money, and pearl jewelry drive shifting alliances. The narrative culminates in scenes of captivity and ritualized bondage, w...

The ninth installment of a Japanese erotic-romantic serial follows Yūsaku and Kunihiko as they question one another about a mysterious woman, a business card, and suspected intimate connections. The dialogue emphasizes jealousy, concealed relationships, and th...

The second installment of a translated erotic serial depicting Alice’s escalating submission to a dominant partner through coercive commands, restraint, and ritualized humiliation. The narrative emphasizes psychological surrender and the eroticization of bonda...

A historical fiction serial centered on the Ōtō Rebellion and the Shinpūren, combining samurai-era conflict with scenes of domestic tension, travel, and village life. The installment uses dramatic dialogue and illustrated episodes to evoke social upheaval and...

A women-only roundtable, chaired by Kawabata Tanako, in which several participants discuss their experiences of being bound, including rope techniques, bodily sensations, pain, posture, endurance, and emotional responses. The conversation also considers bondag...

The ninth installment of a melodramatic erotic serial centered on Harumi and several men entangled in affairs, deception, financial schemes, confinement, and violent confrontations. The narrative unfolds through extended dialogue and shifting revelations about...

A cluster of publication and reader-service notices, including subscription and back-issue information, reader recruitment, editorial policies, manuscript-submission instructions, and publisher details. The notices also promote reader participation and explain...

A retrospective collage reproduces bondage and punishment illustrations from earlier issues, including erotic scenes of women restrained, disciplined, or placed in submissive positions. The page identifies selected source issues and artists while presenting th...

This illustrated feature presents a sequence of erotic drawings depicting women subjected to restraint, binding, and coercive sexual encounters, often involving male partners or captors. The scenes combine explicit domination imagery with period Japanese cloth...

A photographic feature presenting posed scenes of a woman bound with rope, accompanied by commentary on the visual appeal, staging, and methods of female bondage. The sequence emphasizes restrained poses, enforced submission, and the aestheticization of captiv...

A translated, letter-based feature discussing corporal punishment of girls and women in foreign—especially European—domestic, educational, and workplace settings. Anecdotes, commentary, and historical illustrations frame whipping as a form of discipline while...