User:Fa20scj/Choose an Article

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
 * "Net cafe refugee"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article briefly introduces this relatively new social phenomenon in Japan by addressing multiple scholarly sources, which are correctly cited. But Wikipedia indicates that one section of this article doesn't include any citation. It is written neutrally, and it also has to do with filling the equity gaps, because the article is under the homeless category. I can see the conversation going on, which are mainly citation and grammar issues.
 * Therefore, I aim to strengthen the article adding more sources and explaining the socioeconomic context of this phenomenon.


 * Sources
 * Allison, Anne. “Ordinary Refugees: Social Precarity and Soul in 21st Century Japan.” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 2, Project Muse, 2012, pp. 345–70, doi:10.1353/anq.2012.0027.
 * Cook, Emma E. 2013. “Expectations of Failure: Maturity and Masculinity for Freeters in Contemporary Japan.” Social Science Japan Journal 16(1): 29-43
 * Miwa SUZUKI. “Japan’s Homeless ‘net Cafe Refugees’ Seek Shelter amid Virus Woe.” AFP International Text Wire in English, Agence France-Presse, 15/4/2020.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "The Japanese Tradition"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article hasn't been published yet. I am planning to write an article introducing Kentaro Kobayashi's video series "The Japanese Tradition" to English-speaking users. The main focus will be analyzing how the videos tweak the actual traditions and present them in a satirical way.


 * Sources
 * Andrew McKirdy. “Game for a Laugh: Learning to Become a Manzai Comedian.” The Japan Times (Tokyo. 1956), Tribune Content Agency, 5/2/2019.
 * Alice Gordenker. "Morijio." The Japan Times. 6/19/2006.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"


 * Article Evaluation
 * This lengthy article incorporates a wide variety of sources to explain the historical contexts around this book, and how it is regarded as an example of nihonjinron. The article was neutrally written overall, and the literatures seem reliable. But I wanted to improve the part discussing national character and weigh more on its criticism. I'm not sure if this has to do with the equity gaps, but this will contribute to clarifying the myth of Japanese national character and resolve the misrepresentation.


 * Sources

Edward Said. 1978. Orientalism

Martin Fackler. 2007. "Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place." The New York Times