The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Japan.
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February
- February 17 - launch of Hitomi (satellite), ChubuSat-2, ChubuSat-3 and Horyu-4 using a H-IIA 202 space launch vehicle
March
- March 11 - Japan commemorates the fifth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent of Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- March 25 - Kyoto Tamba Kogen Quasi-National Park is established
- March 25 - Asagishi, Hanasaki (Hokkaido), Higashi-Oiwake, Kami-Shirataki, Kanehana, Kyū-Shirataki, Ōshida, Shimo-Shirataki, Tomisato and Washinosu stations are closed
- March 26 - Higashi-Himeji, Nishi-kumamoto, Ishinomakiayumino, Odasakae and Maya stations opens
- March 26 - Hokkaido Shinkansen starts its service from Shin-Aomori Station to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station
- March 26 - Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka opens
- March 27 – Kumamoto gubernatorial election: Incumbent Ikuo Kabashima reelected for a third term[3]
- March 27 - Democratic Party (Japan) is established
June
- IUPAC declared the element 113 Ununtrium as Nihonium, first element in the periodic table whose name is derived from Japan.[5]
- June 5[6] – Okinawa assembly election: Governor Onaga's anti-base, left-wing supporters expand their majority
July
- July 10 – National Diet, House of Councillors: 24th regular election
- July 10[7] – Kagoshima gubernatorial election
- July 23 – Tatsuo Hirano, independent member of the House of Councillors from Iwate, joins the Liberal Democratic Party, giving the party the first majority of its own since the 1989 election defeat[8]
- July 26 - A knife attack in Sagamihara kills 19 people and injures up to 50.
- July 31[9] – Tokyo gubernatorial, assembly by-elections
September
- July to September - According to Japan National Police Agency official confirmed report, 48 hospitalized patients were die, administer disinfectant liquid diamitol giving for hospitalized patients in hospital, Yokohama. On 7 July 2018, a nurse of the main criminal detained and confessed, according to JNPA.[11]
October
- October 16[12] – Niigata gubernatorial election
- October 21 - A Richer Scale 6.2 earthquake, with aftershocks in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, 30 persons were wounded.[13]
- October 23[14] – Okayama gubernatorial election
- October 23[15] – Toyama gubernatorial election
- October 23 – National Diet, House of Representatives: By-elections in Fukuoka, 6th district[16] and in Tokyo, 10th district
- October 25 - Two explosions in a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, kill at least one person and injure three others. Local media report that a 72-year-old ex-military officer is responsible for the blasts. A fire the same day destroyed the suspect's house. (The Guardian), (BBC)
November
- November 20[17] – Tochigi gubernatorial election
December
5th: Abe declares his historic plan to visit Pearl Harbor
- December 18 - A bottoming net fishing boat Daifuku Maru capsized off coast Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, according to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, nine people lost to lives.[page needed]
- December 22 - A massive fire in Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, according to Japanese Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, 17 person wounded.[18]
ja:鳥取県中部地震 (Japanese language) Retrieved date on March 30, 2017 ja:糸魚川市大規模火災’’’ (Japanese language) ’’’ Retrieved date on March 21, 2016