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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Yokohama


 * Article Evaluation
 * Looking at this article there is a good layout to the sub topics. It begins with the history of Yokohama, followed by its geography, demographics, government and politics, culture, infrastructure and economy, and finally education. These are good sub topics and give good overview of the city. However, there is a lot of issues when we go into the subtopics. All these subtopics are fragmented and do not give a cohesive narrative within each sub topic, let alone for the overall article. The history section appears to haphazardly pick out events to mention, and have visuals poorly placed of Yokohama through the years. The rest of the sub topics are not much better, and are mainly charts with bullet points, or a few short paragraphs on the sub topic. It has very few citations, and a lot of information does not appear to have citations. It is a rank C article, and it is listed as a very important article in the wikiproject Japan in the geography section.


 * Sources

EDGINGTON, D. W. (1991). Economic restructuring in Yokohama: from gateway port to international core city. Asian Geographer, 10(1), 62-78.

Munson, T. S. (2012). The Periodical Press in Treaty-port Japan: Conflicting Reports from Yokohama, 1861-1870. Global Oriental.

https://www.yokohamajapan.com/things-to-do/T01.php (website ran by Yokohama)



Option 2

 * Article title
 * Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is an article that is listed as very important in the wikiproject Japan in the military history section. The article is well laid out and the sub topics provide a comprehensive review of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. However, the subtopics are not well written. A lot of the grammar in the history section is a bit... interesting. There also is a lot of information that does not seem to have sources. This is pervasive in all the subtopics, where there is a lot of information that is presented, but does not have a source. A lot of the other subtopics are just bullet pointed lists or charts with minimal explanation surrounding it. There also does not seem to be many sources in the work cited section.
 * Sources
 * Marder, A. J. (1945). From Jimmu tennō to Perry sea power in early Japanese history. The American historical review, 1-34.
 * Hetteberg, T. J. (2018). Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Efforts to Counter Threats to Japan. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States.
 * Ikeda, R. (2007). The impact of declining defense budgets on Japan maritime self defense force. NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Samurai


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is an interesting article. It is listed as a c class article and is ranked as very important, but there is a lot written in it and it has been the subject of a previous project. The history section is really extensive, but it appears the earliest origins of the samurai are not well documented in the history section. The combat and martial art section was also extensively documented. However, this quality is not spread out evenly through the entire article. A lot of the cultural sub sections appear to only discuss the later periods of samurai. It is also at a superficial level when compared to other sections in the article. There are a lot of citations for the history section, but it appears to be a few main book sources.


 * Sources
 * Turnbull, S. R. (1996). The samurai: A military history. Psychology Press.
 * Friday, K. F. (2004). Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan. Psychology Press.
 * Ikegami, E. (2003). Shame and the samurai: Institutions, trusthworthiness, and autonomy in the elite honor culture. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 70(4), 1351-1378.
 * Howland, D. R. (2001). Samurai status, class, and bureaucracy: A historiographical essay. Journal of Asian Studies, 353-380.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Education in Japan


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is organized well with its subtopics appropriately chosen. However, the history section seems to be underwritten with only superficial information on the history of education presented. In the other sections which describe each level of education there is little citations and a lot of it is written from the perspective of someone who has been through it or just heard about it from Japanese sources. There is a criticisms section that has very few citations and does not appear balanced as wikipedia tries to be. This article has a lot of room for improvement, mainly in sources and fleshing out some aspects of the history of Japanese education.


 * Sources
 * Gainey, P., & Andressen, C. (2002). The Japanese education system: Globalisation and international education. Japanese Studies, 22(2), 153-167.
 * Duke, B. C. (2009). The history of modern japanese education: constructing the national school system, 1872-1890. Rutgers University Press.
 * Johnson, M. L., & Johnson, J. R. (1996). Daily life in Japanese high schools. Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Indiana University
 * Ishikida, M. Y. (2005). Japanese education in the 21st century. iUniverse.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Marriage in Japan


 * Article Evaluation
 * So, this article is an interesting one. There is not a lot on marriage in the earlier period of Japanese history, and the rest seems to be decently cited and written. But, there seems to be a lot of bias written into some parts of the article when compared to what we read. The part of the page dedicated to divorce are minimal and do not provide much information. There also some sub topics that make sense for the topic, but appear out of place and are really just stubs. There definitely could be more work done to improve the history section, more details on divorce, and expansion or removal of some of the less relevant sub topics.


 * Sources
 * Koike, E. (2013). Marriage in Contemporary Japan.
 * Retherford, R. D., Ogawa, N., & Matsukura, R. (2001). Late marriage and less marriage in Japan. Population and development review, 27(1), 65-102.
 * amagawa, M. (2016). Same-sex marriage in Japan. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 12(2), 160-187.
 * Akiba, J. I., & Ishikawa, M. (1995). Marriage and divorce regulation and recognition in Japan. Family Law Quarterly, 589-601.