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
