The following are links to source material used in the book which is available online.

They are listed by chapter.

Order by Accident: ‘Groupiness in Japan’

• Paul de Vries, ‘Back to the baths: Otaru revisited’, Japan Times,  2 December 2008
• Dan O’Keeffe, ‘Otaru ruling beats ‘mob rule’ Japan Times, 6 January 2009
• Adam Richards, ‘Why does Gyoza no Ohsho need to brainwash its employees?’ 1 May 2010
• Gyoza no Ohsho public statement in response to criticism (in Japanese)

The Japanese Workplace and Emile Durkheim

• Emile Durkheim, Suicide. London: Routledge, 2002.
• W. David Marx, ‘Work/Life Balance – Coming Never to Japan’, 6 March 2007

The Value of Japanese Inefficiency

• Jonathan Gadir, ‘The Value of Japanese Inefficiency‘, New Matilda, 24 August 2009
• Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, 2009. Earthscan.

Refutation of neoliberalism?

• Robert Locke, ‘Japan, refutation of neoliberalism’, post-autistic economics review, no. 23, 5 January 2004.

Working Hours in Japan: Culture or Capitalism?

• Hirosuke Kawanishi and Ross Mouer, ‘The State of the Union Movement in Japan: is there a future?’,  Ningen Kagaku Kenkyu, vol. 17, no. 1, 1999.

Others’ Eyes

• Dag Leonardsen, ‘Drinking among Japanese youth – a paradox for theories of alcohol availability’, Nordisk Alkohol- & Narkotikatidskrift Vol. 23, 2006 – English Supplement

The English Industry

• Figures on reasons for English study:

http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/10/09/english-study-just-a-hobby-for-most/ (English)

http://japan.internet.com/research/20101005/1.html (Japanese)

• Terrie Lloyd, ‘English-language teaching industry in bad shape’, Japan Today, June 2009
• Jordan Pearson, ‘SuperNOVA:  The bankruptcy and implosion of Japan’s largest language school chain’, 29 November 2008
• Tony McNicol, ‘No sex please, you’re teachers’, Japan Times, 1 June 2004
• Jordan Pearson, ‘Japan’s eikaiwa industry in serious trouble after the bankruptcy of GEOS’, 25 May 2010
• ‘English language school ordered to close because of coercive sales practices’, 19 February 2010. (Daily Yomiuri Online)
• Lisa Gay, ‘Grounding the JET: The exchange program faces a do-or-die moment’, Metropolis, 28 October 2010

Post-modern Passover

• Encyclopedia Judaica on Makuya
• Ian Hacking, ‘What did Aum Shinrikyo have in mind?’, London Review of Books, Vol. 22, no. 20,  19 October 2000