Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) wraps up their eleven day Year End Sensation tour with the Year End Spectacular. The vent was the third and final annual Year End Spectacular event, and marked the in-ring return of Atsushi Onita.

The best of the best in sports from 1996.

In 1996, the publishers of zines Exile Osaka and Thora-Zine convinced a giant Japanese entertainment company to bring the scum band Concussion to Japan (even though they had never played a show before). Many of the best bands in the Japan underground scene appeared at Bayside Jenny, a now-defunct club in Osaka.

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 1996 concert was conducted by Claudio Abbado and featured Maxim Vengerov (violin) and the Swedish Radio Choir performing: Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1, 5, 7, 17, 10 & 21, Johannes Brahms: Gipsy Songs, Op. 103, Maurice Ravel: Tzigane, Johannes Brahms: "Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang", Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52, Maurice Ravel: La Valse, Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March.