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Week 2 Article Evaluation
Week 2 article : Abe Masahiro

This article is easy to read and is well sourced. All the sources are hard copy. I check them against the online copy of Encyclopedia Britannica and they check out. The article is factual and contains no speculation or personal opinions. There is no conversations on the talk page and the page has only been edited by nine people.

Week 4 Possible Topics
Here are some articles that I am considering adding to:

Hibiya Park - I would add a paragraph about some of the other protests that took place there. I would also add souses to the existing marital because it currently has only one.

Battle of Tsushima - This articles need many citations added or the unsubstantiated information removed. There is also something up with the units of measure that I can look into.

Week 5 Topic
My article is Hibiya Park. It was a important location in the history of Japan in the 1930's and the article should reflect that. I plan to add a brief summery of the riots and other events that this park played a role in. It was the site of six separate riots between 1905 and 1918.

= Draft of Hibiya Park (Edits in Bold) = Hibiya Park (日比谷公園 Hibiya Kōen) is a park in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan. It covers an area of 161,636.66m2 between the east gardens of the Imperial Palace to the north, the Shinbashi district to the southeast and the Kasumigaseki government district to the west.

History
The land was occupied by the estates of the Mōri clan and Nabeshima clan during the Edo period, and was used for army maneuvers during the Meiji period. It was converted to a park and opened to the public on June 1, 1903.

On September 5, 1905 the park was the origin of the Hibiya Incendiary Incident a major citywide riot that erupted in protest of the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The Riots lasted two days resulting in seventeen people being killed and 331 arrested, as well a large amount of property damage. The riots were not only against the unfavorable terms of the treaty but also due to bureaucrats who refused accept he will of the people in regards to Foreign policy.

The park is famous for the Shisei Kaikan (市政会館), a brick building built in Gothic style in 1929, which once housed the Domei Tsushin state wire service and its postwar successors Kyodo News and Jiji Press.

The park is also known for its open-air concert venue, Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall (日比谷野外音楽堂), and for its tennis courts (for which reservations are hotly contested due to their proximity to the financial and government districts).

Contents

 * 1 Surrounding buildings
 * 2 Gallery
 * 3 External links
 * 4 References

Surrounding buildings

 * Attorneys' Hall (Japan Federation of Bar Associations headquarters)
 * Fukoku Seimei Building
 * Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
 * Ministry of the Environment
 * Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
 * Ministry of Justice
 * Mizuho Bank Building
 * Nissay Theatre
 * NTT Hibiya Building
 * Shinsei Bank Building
 * Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Building

Gallery

 * Hibiya Park Lake and Wisteria Grove
 * Shisei Kaikan, former home of Japan's newswires
 * Rai stone in Hibiya park
 * Ongaku-do, Hibiya Park, Tokyo, 1909