The 1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships included this tournament in women's doubles. Miho Saeki and Yuka Yoshida were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Sung-Hee Park and Shi-Ting Wang.
Kimiko Date and Ai Sugiyama won in the final 7 - 6, 6 - 7, 6 - 3 against Amy Frazier and Kimberly Po.
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
Sabine Appelmans / 
Kyoko Nagatsuka (quarterfinals)
Amy Frazier / Kimberly Po (final) Laurence Courtois / Nancy Feber (first round)
Rene Simpson (semifinals)