2016 in Japan
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Japan. Year: Heisei 28 == Incumbents == Emperor: Akihito Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe (L–Yamaguchi) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (L–Kanagawa) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Itsurō Terada President of the House of Representatives: Tadamori Oshima (L–Aomori) President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Yamazaki (L–Fukui) until July 25, Chūichi Date (L-Hokkaidō) from August 1 National Diets: 190th (regular session, January 4–June 1), 191st (extraordinary session, August 1–3), 192nd (extraordinary session, September 26–November 30 [unless extended or cut short by lower house dissolution]) === Governors === Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa Kochi Prefecture: Masanao Ozaki Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima Kyoto Prefecture: Keiji Yamada Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura Nara Prefecture: Shōgo Arai Niigata Prefecture: Hirohiko Izumida (until 27 October); Ryūichi Yoneyama (starting 27 October) Oita Prefecture: Katsusada Hirose Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa Prefecture: Takeshi Onaga Osaka Prefecture: Ichirō Matsui Saga Prefecture: Yoshinori Yamaguchi Saitama Prefecture: Kiyoshi Ueda Shiga Prefecture: Taizō Mikazuki Shiname Prefecture: Zenbe Mizoguchi Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima Prefecture: Kamon Iizumi Tokyo: until 21 June: Yōichi Masuzoe 21 June-2 August: Tatsumi Ando starting 2 August: Yuriko Koike Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai Toyama Prefecture: Takakazu Ishii Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshinobu Nisaka Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi Prefecture: Hitoshi Gotō == Events == === January === Record snowfall and the first Sumo tournament win in a decade for a Japanese rikishi, amid turmoil on the Nikkei 225 and a political scandal involving Abe's cabinet.