TOP 10 NEWS STORIES FOR 2016, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun Survey
Domestic
1. Kumamoto Earthquake
2. Koike governor of Tokyo
3. Rio Olympics
4. Emperor wants to abdicate
5. President Obama in Hiroshima
6. Osumi wins Nobel Prize
7. Hokkaido Shinkansen
8. Murder of mentally ill patients in Sagamihara
9. Voting age lowered to 18
10. Pokemon Go
International
1. Trump wins election
2. Brexit
3. Park Geun-hye scandal
4. Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize
5. Obama goes to Cuba
6. Panama Papers
7. N.Korea tests H-bomb
8. Sports doping in Russia
9. Democracy in Myanmar
10. Fidel Castro dies