Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
This sociological study provides a wonderful understanding of Eriko's character.
Donald Keene, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Columbia University Press, 1988.
Keene is considered by some to be the leading interpreter of Japanese literature to the West, a frequent translator of criticism and literature. This recent, short book gives a good background on the culture that produced Kitchen.
Jonathan Rauch, The Outnation: A Search for the Soul of Japan, Harvard Business School Press, 1992.
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