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. The tournament featured eight Japanese players who faced eight PDC players and was held at the

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from 6–7 July 2016. Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won the inaugural staging of the Japan Darts Masters after defeating Peter Wright 8–7 in the final, but he lost 8–7 to

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in the quarter-finals. Gary Anderson won the title after beating

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8–6 in the final.

Qualifiers

The seeded PDC players were: # Gary Anderson (winner) #

''(runner-up)'' #

''(semi-finals)'' #

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''(semi-finals)'' The next four seeded PDC players were (drawn at random into seeded side of the draw): The Japanese qualifiers were: :*

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''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Masahiro Hiraga ''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Tsuneki Zaha ''(first round)'' :* Shintaro Inoue ''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)''

Draw

References

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