Interviews

In these times of international crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we suffer collectively. We cannot so easily practice whichever interpretation we enjoy in...

Welcome to the scene. Like a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy, the flickering images of this desperate act of human depravity will not leave your...

From September 1979 until January 2009 S & M Sniper was a Japanese erotic magazine catering for sadomasochism and rope bondage. Unlike previous publications,...

For the sake of accurate history, and because age is a fact of life we have to accept, it becomes imperative to record details from key...

Prior to arriving in Japan, Milla Reika had never heard of Kinbaku.  It was not until well over a year into her stay that...

Milla Reika.   An exotic sounding name.  As exotic as the prospect of traveling alone around the world seeking adventure and discovering what the world has...

I first met Ugo san around 6 years ago via ViceMinister, an American resident in Tokyo, and, as a confirmed historian of rope bondage in Japan,...

From 2008. Osada Steve interviews Miura Takumi for Tokyo Bound, reprinted with permission. The latest in our series of unique and insightful interviews with...

This month we welcome a special guest contributor to Kinbaku Today, Sugiura Norio.  Sugiura sensei has offered to provide periodic commentary, advice, and reflection for Kinbaku Today for a special section: Sugiura Speaks. In a recent interview in Tokyo with Kinbaku Today, famed bondage photographer Sugiura Norio pushed back on the idea that the gote is...

If you are planning a trip to Tokyo and don't have a lot of experience or access to the rope world, Kinako is offering...

What caught your attention to bondage and when? Whilst I had been doing BDSM privately prior, I joined our local BDSM community around 2002. At...

Generously shared by Osada Steve sensei on the memorial day of Yukimura Haruki sensei's passing.  It is our hope that today be filled with...