[1] Live in Japan was reissued in 2006 on CD by Ad Hoc Records in the United States with one extra track: "I Hate America", taken from the band's first single in 1981.

[2] After the Work recorded Slow Crimes in early 1982, Mick Hobbs and Rick Wilson left the quartet, and the remaining members, Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis formed a touring version of the Work with Amos (Jim Welton) and Chris Cutler to fulfil concert commitments in Japan.

[3] A review of Live in Japan in AllMusic noted how the Work used the instruments at their disposal to "explore (and in some cases dismantle)" pieces from their earlier records.

[7] Reviewing the 2006 CD release of the album in Maelstrom, Avi Shaked said this re-issue gives the respect this "adventurous but rather poorly documented band" deserves.

[9] In a review of Live in Japan, he said "[t]he music feels infinitely malleable as the fragmented rhythmic flow concertinas and hits accumulative climaxes like the best free jazz".