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2016 in Japan

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The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Japan.

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January

February

  • February 17 - launch of Hitomi (satellite), ChubuSat-2, ChubuSat-3 and Horyu-4 using a H-IIA 202 space launch vehicle

March

April

May

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

August

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

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]
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Kunio Hatoyama
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Chiyonofuji Mitsugu
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Takahito, Prince Mikasa

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November

  • November 3 – Jiang Ge, murder victim (b. 1992)
  • November 29 – Hiroshi Ogawa [ja], announcer (b. 1926)

December

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