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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: Oishi Matashichi
 * Article Evaluation: Does not currently exist
 * Sources: I could easily use his book The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I. I wonder if this would be considered a primary source and therefore be inappropriate for Wikipedia. There's also a chapter on him in Grappling with the Bomb: Britain's Pacific H-Bomb Tests and a few Japan Times articles, and a Wikipedia article on the Lucky Dragon, his fishing boat.
 * Sources: I could easily use his book The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I. I wonder if this would be considered a primary source and therefore be inappropriate for Wikipedia. There's also a chapter on him in Grappling with the Bomb: Britain's Pacific H-Bomb Tests and a few Japan Times articles, and a Wikipedia article on the Lucky Dragon, his fishing boat.
 * Sources: I could easily use his book The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I. I wonder if this would be considered a primary source and therefore be inappropriate for Wikipedia. There's also a chapter on him in Grappling with the Bomb: Britain's Pacific H-Bomb Tests and a few Japan Times articles, and a Wikipedia article on the Lucky Dragon, his fishing boat.

Option 2

 * Article title: Taiji, Wakayama
 * Article Evaluation: The article is insightful but short. It only briefly covers the 1878 whaling disaster that cost the lives of over 100 people. The article also provides only minimal coverage of the "modernization" of whaling in Taiji.
 * Sources: "From Meat to Machine Oil: The nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama" by Jacobina Arch, Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975, "Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism," by David L. Howell
 * Sources: "From Meat to Machine Oil: The nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama" by Jacobina Arch, Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975, "Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism," by David L. Howell
 * Sources: "From Meat to Machine Oil: The nineteenth-Century Development of Whaling in Wakayama" by Jacobina Arch, Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975, "Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism," by David L. Howell

Option 3

 * Article title: Ainu People
 * Article Evaluation: This is a pretty solid article. In the section on "Pre-Modern" Ainu history, there is some discussion of the Ainu's extensive trading with the Japanese to the south but no mention of their extensive trade with the Qing Dynasty in China or the Russians. A brief discussion of this trade could greatly improve the article because it would reveal that the Ainu's history of trade is not just about Japanese colonization. The Ainu were actually skilled traders who built trade networks with the rest of Asia.
 * Sources: The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker
 * Sources: The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker
 * Sources: The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker

Option 4

 * Article title: Okutsu Channel
 * Article Evaluation: Does not exist
 * Sources: "Constructing Nature" by Philip C. Brown
 * Sources: "Constructing Nature" by Philip C. Brown
 * Sources: "Constructing Nature" by Philip C. Brown

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