The 1996 Japanese Touring Car Championship season was the 12th edition of the series. It began at Fuji Speedway on 7 April and finished after seven events, also at Fuji Speedway on 3 November. The championship was won by Naoki Hattori, driving for Mooncraft.

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Teams & Drivers Team Car No. Drivers Rounds HKS Opel Team Japan Opel Vectra 3 Masahiro Hasemi All YTR Mazdaspeed Mazda Lantis 6 Yojiro Terada 1-2 Mazda Familia 5-7 Toyota Team FET Toyota Corolla AE110 8 Tatsuya Tanigawa 1-4 Morio Nitta 5-7 Mazdaspeed Mazda Familia 9 Franck Fréon All Team Advan with MOGG BMW 318i 10 Kazuo Mogi 1 Object T Toyota Corona EXiV 11 Takahiko Hara All Team Impul Nissan Primera P11 12 Kazuyoshi Hoshino All Asano Racing Service BMW 318i 13 Takeo Asano 5, 7 Mooncraft Honda Accord 14 Naoki Hattori 1-3, 5-7 Nakajima Planning Honda Accord 15 Takuya Kurosawa 1-3, 5-7 Castrol Mugen Honda Honda Accord 16 Osamu Nakako 1-3, 5-7 33 Ryō Michigami 7 Suzuki Bankin Opel Vectra 17 Tatsuhiko Kaneumi All Endless Sport BMW 318i 18 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Corona EXiV 19 Katsutomo Kaneishi All Hitotsuyama Racing BMW 318i 20 Takayuki Kinoshita 7 21 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 1-3, 7 Mikio Hitotsuyama 4-6 Nismo Nissan Primera Camino P11 23 Masahiko Kageyama All Nissan Sunny 32 Satoshi Motoyama 1-4 Nissan Primera Camino P11 5-7 BMS Scuderia Italia Nissan Primera GTe 24 Anthony Reid 7 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Corona EXiV 25 Masami Kageyama All Auto Tech Racing BMW 318i 35 Akihiko Nakaya All Toyota Team TOM's Toyota Corona EXiV 36 Masanori Sekiya All 37 Michael Krumm All Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Corona EXiV 38 Hironori Takeuchi All 39 Érik Comas All SYMS Racing Subaru Impreza Sport Wagon 66 Shunji Kasuya 1-4, 6-7 Dandelion Racing Toyota Corona EXiV 68 Tetsuya Tanaka All Team Something Toyota Corolla AE110 72 Masahiro Matsunaga 4, 7 Kosei J.P. Team Pures Ford Mondeo 88 Hisashi Wada 3-7

Calendar Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning teamRef 1 R1 Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka 7 April Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Mooncraft R2 Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Mooncraft 2 R3 Sportsland SUGO, Miyagi 19 May Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Naoki Hattori Mooncraft R4 Michael Krumm Michael Krumm Michael Krumm Toyota Team TOM's 3 R5 Suzuka Circuit, Mie 2 June Takuya Kurosawa Takuya Kurosawa Osamu Nakako Castrol Mugen Honda R6 Naoki Hattori Satoshi Motoyama Naoki Hattori Mooncraft 4 R7 Mine Central Circuit, Yamaguchi 14 July Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm Kazuyoshi Hoshino Team Impul R8 Masahiko Kageyama Kazuyoshi Hoshino Masahiko Kageyama Nismo 5 R9 Sendai Hi-Land Raceway, Miyagi 8 September Takuya Kurosawa Naoki Hattori Akihiko Nakaya Auto Tech Racing R10 Takuya Kurosawa Naoki Hattori Takuya Kurosawa Nakajima Planning 6 R11 Tokachi International Speedway, Hokkaidō 22 September Takuya Kurosawa Osamu Nakako Naoki Hattori Mooncraft R12 Naoki Hattori Osamu Nakako Osamu Nakako Castrol Mugen Honda 7 R13 Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka 3 November Kazuyoshi Hoshino Anthony Reid Érik Comas Toyota Team Cerumo R14 Takuya Kurosawa Anthony Reid Anthony Reid BMS Scuderia Italia

Championship Standings Points were awarded 15, 12, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to the top 10 finishers in each race, with no bonus points for pole positions or fastest laps. Drivers counted their ten best scores. Pos Driver FUJ SUG SUZ MIN SEN TOK FUJ Pts 1 Naoki Hattori 1 1 1 4 2 1 WD WD 4 2 1 2 DSQ DSQ 125 2 Osamu Nakako 2 2 2 3 1 4 WD WD 2 3 2 1 DSQ DSQ 115 3 Michael Krumm 4 7 4 1 3 3 2 6 3 9 4 4 7 10 87 4 Takuya Kurosawa 3 4 10 7 5 2 WD WD Ret 1 3 3 Ret DNS 72 5 Masahiko Kageyama 7 Ret 8 9 4 6 4 1 6 7 Ret 18 3 7 63 6 Kazuyoshi Hoshino Ret Ret 5 16 9 17 1 2 Ret 4 10 Ret 5 2 61 7 Masanori Sekiya 5 3 3 2 Ret 15 20 3 7 Ret 7 14 NC 9 55 8 Érik Comas 18 6 6 10 Ret Ret 13 8 5 6 Ret 8 1 3 52 9 Satoshi Motoyama Ret 8 Ret DNS 8 7 8 9 Ret 5 6 5 4 4 46 10 Akihiko Nakaya 13 13 7 Ret Ret Ret 17 5 1 19 5 7 9 8 40 11 Masami Kageyama 9 9 9 6 16 5 3 7 9 14 9 6 Ret DNS 39 12 Katsutomo Kaneishi 6 5 14 Ret 6 8 10 12 13 Ret NC 9 6 5 33 13 Anthony Reid 2 1 27 14 Masahiro Hasemi 8 12 Ret 8 10 9 12 15 Ret 8 8 10 8 6 24 15 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 11 16 Ret 5 7 10 5 10 8 10 11 11 11 11 22 16 Hironori Takeuchi 10 10 Ret 11 12 11 7 4 11 18 Ret 20 Ret DNS 13 17 Takahiko Hara 14 14 Ret 14 14 13 6 14 10 11 NC 12 12 12 6 18 Hisashi Wada Ret 16 9 19 DNS Ret DNS DNS DNS DNS 2 19 Tetsuya Tanaka 12 11 Ret 15 11 12 11 11 Ret 16 12 13 10 Ret 1 20 Tatsuhiko Kaneumi Ret DNS 11 Ret 13 14 14 16 14 15 DNS DNS 15 13 0 21 Morio Nitta 12 13 13 15 13 DNS 0 22 Franck Fréon 17 15 12 13 Ret DNS 19 Ret Ret Ret 14 16 Ret DNS 0 23 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 15 Ret Ret 12 17 Ret Ret 15 0 24 Mikio Hitotsuyama 15 17 Ret 12 Ret 17 0 25 Yojiro Terada Ret Ret 13 Ret 16 17 NC 19 14 Ret 0 26 Tatsuya Tanigawa 16 Ret Ret Ret 15 Ret Ret 13 0 27 Takayuki Kinoshita NC 14 0 28 Takeo Asano 15 DNS 16 16 0 29 Shunji Kasuya DNS DNS Ret DNS DNS DNS 16 18 Ret Ret 17 NC 0 30 Masahiro Matsunaga 18 Ret Ret DNS 0 NC Kazuo Mogi DNS DNS 0 NC Ryō Michigami DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver FUJ SUG SUZ MIN SEN TOK FUJ PtsBold - Pole Italics - Fastest lap

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