1. Dr Ken Coates, Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick.
2. Dmitri Ragano, “Special Report: Despite Japan’s Finance Industry Shake-Up, IT Continues to Grow,” ASCII Website ( http://wwwascii.co.jp /english/news/archive/97/11/28/#l).
3. “Wiring Japan,” 5 May 1994, Wired ( http://muhu.cs.helsinki.fi /mailing_lists/pointers/msg00035.html.)
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5. Mariko Tomiyama and Yuko Maeda, “Internet and Japan,” 1994, http://muhucs.helsinki.fi /mailing_lists/pointers/msg00036.html.