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 * 2010 in Japan
 * I have chosen this from the list of C-class articles because I think I will be able to say more about this than a few other articles I was looking into.

Lead
This article begins with "Events in the year 2010 in Japan" as its introductory sentence and the entirety of the lead. It needs at the very least a short summary following the single sentence of things that actually happened. For example, noting some of the more well known things that happened in Japan in 2010, and alluding to other things that also happened. I guess it could be considered concise as is, but it leaves all context in the content bar.

Content
Yes the content is relevant to the topic, however, it is all in bullet point format. There could be much more effort made into explaining some of the events it lists. For example, there is an event listed on January 1st about the merging of two separate cities that does link information to the towns but there is no information anywhere about why the towns were linked or what the significance of them merging means. This doesn't really address any of the information presented in the article, it is essentially a data dump.

Tone and Balance
The Article is neutral in the sense that it doesn't have enough text to present any bias, so there is no bias to contend with any positions someone might take from reading it. I think there may be a bit though in the sense that they reference a rally in Okinawa on April 25 of 100,000 people, but it makes no reference whatso ever to what the rally was for and links no information about the outcomes. It may be leading in a way since they aren't giving all of the information.

Sources and References
A lot of the information in this article is backed up by only a link, but some of it is stated without a wiki link. Such as, on April 17th it states that record snowfall fell that day and links information about the city of Tokyo but no information about the record, nor information about snowfall in Japan. The sources are mostly current but only because it links more popular articles that are updated more often, thus also ensuring a wide variety of authors as well. The majority of this article's links work, however, almost 70% of links under the section "Prefectural Elections" lead no where.

Organization

 * This article is well organized in that it lists everything in a logical way. It first touches on politics, talking about incumbents and listing positions and who is in them. Then it does a list of events in 2010, and finally a list of deaths occurring in that year. However, the section on deaths that year is not fully inclusive and should reflect that in the title, perhaps as "Celebrity deaths" or "notable deaths" because it certainly does not list every person who died in Japan that year.

Images and Media

 * There are three pictures in this article, one pertaining to the "Events" section and shows the launch of the Venus probe Akatsuki. However, it is not even captioned in a grammatically correct way. The next pictures are in the "Deaths" sections and are pictures of two different deceased men, which is perhaps notable that there are no women pictured. Overall I think the pictures do show a bit of the stereotypes that surround Japan, they are pictures of advanced technology and older Japanese men. They are not appealing because they are all very small pictures that seem to be pushed off into the margins and kind of random in where and why they are placed since the picture of the men do not coincide with the lines talking about the people they depict. The captions for the men only list their name and not any of the importance of their lives or how long they lived.
 * There are three pictures in this article, one pertaining to the "Events" section and shows the launch of the Venus probe Akatsuki. However, it is not even captioned in a grammatically correct way. The next pictures are in the "Deaths" sections and are pictures of two different deceased men, which is perhaps notable that there are no women pictured. Overall I think the pictures do show a bit of the stereotypes that surround Japan, they are pictures of advanced technology and older Japanese men. They are not appealing because they are all very small pictures that seem to be pushed off into the margins and kind of random in where and why they are placed since the picture of the men do not coincide with the lines talking about the people they depict. The captions for the men only list their name and not any of the importance of their lives or how long they lived.

Checking the talk page

 * There isn't much in the way of a conversation on this talk page, most of it bot changes and external link fixes, there is not much of a conversation at all going on on this page. nothing has bee added since 2011 from what I can see.

Overall impressions

 * It is a C-rated article, its strengths are the fact that it is well listed in chronological order. It could be improved by adding more context and more relevant links, especially in the section on "prefectural elections." I would say that this article is underdeveloped, and could be improved upon greatly.

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