Japan at the 1964 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp (in Japanese and English)
in Tokyo
Competitors	328 (270 men and 58 women) in 21 sports
Flag bearer	Makoto Fukui
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 16 Silver 5 Bronze 8 Total 29
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan was the host nation for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. 328 competitors, 270 men and 58 women, took part in 155 events in 21 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Yoshinobu Miyake Weightlifting Men's featherweight October 12  Gold Yoshikatsu Yoshida Wrestling Men's freestyle flyweight October 14  Gold Yojiro Uetake Wrestling Men's freestyle bantamweight October 14  Gold Osamu Watanabe Wrestling Men's freestyle featherweight October 14  Gold Tsutomu Hanahara Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman flyweight October 19  Gold Masamitsu Ichiguchi Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight October 19  Gold Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri Gymnastics Men's team all-around October 20  Gold Yukio Endo Gymnastics Men's individual all-around October 20  Gold Takehide Nakatani Judo Men's lightweight October 20  Gold Isao Okano Judo Men's middleweight October 21  Gold Isao Inokuma Judo Men's heavyweight October 22  Gold Takuji Hayata Gymnastics Men's rings October 22  Gold Yukio Endo Gymnastics Men's parallel bars October 23  Gold Haruhiro Yamashita Gymnastics Men's vault October 23  Gold Takao Sakurai Boxing Men's bantamweight October 23  Gold Masae Kasai Emiko Miyamoto Kinuko Tanida Yuriko Handa Yoshiko Matsumura Sata Isobe Katsumi Matsumura Yoko Shinozaki Setsuko Sasaki Yuko Fujimoto Masako Kondo Ayano Shibuki Volleyball Women's tournament October 23  Silver Shuji Tsurumi Gymnastics Men's individual all-around October 20  Silver Yukio Endo Gymnastics Men's floor October 22  Silver Shuji Tsurumi Gymnastics Men's pommel horse October 22  Silver Shuji Tsurumi Gymnastics Men's parallel bars October 23  Silver Akio Kaminaga Judo Men's open category October 23  Bronze Shiro Ichinoseki Weightlifting Men's bantamweight October 11  Bronze Masashi Ohuchi Weightlifting Men's middleweight October 14  Bronze Iwao Horiuchi Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight October 14  Bronze Yoshihisa Yoshikawa Shooting Men's 50 metre free pistol October 18  Bronze Yukiaki Okabe Toshio Shoji Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay October 18  Bronze Kokichi Tsuburaya Athletics Men's marathon October 21  Bronze Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji Toshiko Shirasu Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around October 21  Bronze Yutaka Demachi Tsutomu Koyama Sadatoshi Sugawara Naohiro Ikeda Yasutaka Sato Toshiaki Kosedo Tokihiko Higuchi Masayuki Minami Takeshi Tokutomi Teruhisa Moriyama Yūzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Volleyball Men's tournament October 23

Medals by sport Sport Total Gymnastics 5 4 1 10 Wrestling 5 0 1 6 Judo 3 1 0 4 Weightlifting 1 0 2 3 Volleyball 1 0 1 2 Boxing 1 0 0 1 Athletics 0 0 1 1 Shooting 0 0 1 1 Swimming 0 0 1 1 Total 16 5 8 29

Athletics

Basketball

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	562	424	+138	14	Semifinals
2	Puerto Rico	7	5	2	493	454	+39	12
3	Poland	7	4	3	467	448	+19	11[a]	5th–8th classification round
4	Italy	7	4	3	495	480	+15	11[a]
5	Mexico	7	3	4	485	514	−29	10[b]	9th–12th classification round
6	Japan (H)	7	3	4	421	428	−7	10[b]
7	Hungary	7	2	5	407	469	−62	9	13th–16th classification round
8	Canada	7	0	7	408	521	−113	7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	7	7	0	569	333	+236	14	Semifinals
2	Brazil	7	5	2	473	452	+21	12[a]
3	Yugoslavia	7	5	2	529	453	+76	12[a]	5th–8th classification round
4	Uruguay	7	4	3	472	482	−10	11
5	Finland	7	3	4	409	475	−66	10	9th–12th classification round
6	Australia	7	2	5	434	460	−26	9[b]
7	Peru	7	2	5	431	453	−22	9[b]	13th–16th classification round
8	South Korea	7	0	7	432	641	−209	7

October 11

17:30

Japan

55–65

Puerto Rico

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

12 October

12:00

Poland

81–57

Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

October 13

19:00

Canada

37–58

Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

October 14

12:00

Hungary

41–58

Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

October 16

17:30

Soviet Union

72–59

Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

October 17

9:00

Japan

72–68

Italy

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

October 18

12:00

Japan

62–64

Mexico

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

Classification brackets

9th–12th Place 21 October

10:00

Japan

54–45

Finland

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

9th Place 23 October

10:00

Australia

64–57

Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

Boxing

Men

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shuta Yoshino	Flyweight	—	BYE	Otto Babiasch (EUA) L 2-3	Did not advance
Takao Sakurai	Bantamweight	—	Brian Packer (GBR) W 4-1	Isaac Aryee (GHA) W 5–0	Nicolae Puiu (ROU) W 5–0	Washington Rodríguez (URU) W 5-0	Chung Shin-cho (KOR) W RSC
Masataka Takayama	Featherweight	—	Ian McLoughlin (NRH) W 5–0	Piotr Gutman (POL) L RSC	Did not advance
Kanemaru Shiratori	Lightweight	BYE	Sammy Amekudji (GHA) W KO	Ronald Allen Harris (USA) L 0-5	Did not advance
Hoji Yonekura	Light welterweight	BYE	Miguel Velázquez (ESP) W 3-2	Félix Betancourt (CUB) L 2-3	Did not advance
Kichijiro Hamada	Welterweight	—	Sayed Mahmoudpour Roudsari (IRN) W 5-0	Manfredo Alipala (PHI) W 5–0	Marian Kasprzyk (POL) L 0-5	Did not advance
Koji Masuda	Light middleweight	—	Jannie Gibson (RHO) W RSC	Joseph Gonzales (URS) L 2-3	Did not advance
Hitoshi Tenma	Middleweight	—	Juan Aguilar (ARG) L 0-5	Did not advance
Tadayuki Maruyama	Heavyweight	—		Athol McQueen (AUS) L 0-5	Did not advance

Canoeing

Men

Women

Cycling

15 cyclists represented Japan in 1964.

Road

Track

1000m time trial

Men's tandem

Athlete	Event	Heats	Repechage	Repechage Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Hideo Madarame Toshimitsu Teshima	Tandem	Bicskey Habony (HUN) L	Morelon Trentin (FRA)  Mercado Tellez (MEX) L	Did not advance

Men's Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats	Repechage 1	Repechage Finals	Round 2	Repechage 2	Repechage Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Tsuyoshi Kawachi	Men's sprint	Schillinger (EUA)  Fredborg (DEN) L	Gibbon (TRI)  Phivana (CAM) L	Did not advance
Katsuhiko Sato	Men's sprint	Mercado (MEX)  Simes (USA) W 11.92	BYE		Fuggerer (EUA)  Kučírek (IND) L	Pkhak'adze (URS)  Harrison (ITA) L	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time
Hiromi Yamafuji	Men's individual pursuit	Martín Rodríguez (COL) W 5:17.57	Did not advance
Norio Hotogi Fujio Ito Kosaku Takahashi Hiromi Yamafuji	Team pursuit	India (IND) W 4:55.04	Did not advance

Diving

Men

Women

Equestrian

Dressage

Eventing

Show jumping

Fencing

15 fencers, 11 men and 4 women, represented Japan in 1964.

Men's foil

• Kazuo Mano
• Heizaburo Okawa
• Kazuhiko Tabuchi

Men's team foil

• Kazuhiko Tabuchi, Fujio Shimizu, Kazuo Mano, Heizaburo Okawa, Sosuke Toda

Men's épée

• Heizaburo Okawa
• Kazuhiko Tabuchi
• Toshiaki Araki

Men's team épée

• Toshiaki Araki, Katsutada Minatoi, Kazuhiko Tabuchi, Heizaburo Okawa, Takeshi Teshima

Men's sabre

• Mitsuyuki Funamizu
• Seiji Shibata
• Teruhiro Kitao

Men's team sabre

• Fujio Shimizu, Teruhiro Kitao, Seiji Shibata, Mitsuyuki Funamizu

Women's foil

• Tomoko Owada
• Tamiko Yasui
• Yoshie Takeuchi

Women's team foil

• Yoshie Komori, Tamiko Yasui, Tomoko Owada, Yoshie Takeuchi

Football

First round

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	3
Japan	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	2
Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
Italy[a]	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0

October 14, 1964
14:00

Japan	3–2	Argentina
Sugiyama 54' Kawabuchi 81' Ogi 82'	Report	Domínguez 24', 62'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Setagaya, Tokyo

Attendance: 19,049

Referee: Škorić (YUG)

October 16, 1964
14:00

Japan	2–3	Ghana
Sugiyama 12' Yaegashi 52'	Report	Agyemang 27' S. Acquah 69' Fulaiteh 80'

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Setagaya, Tokyo

Referee: Niţescu (ROU)

Quarter-finals

October 18, 1964
14:00

Czechoslovakia	4–0	Japan
Brumovský 43', 59' Vojta 69' (pen.) Mráz 86'	Report

Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, Setagaya, Tokyo

Attendance: 18,940

Referee: De Queiroz (BRA)

First consolation round

Played by losing quarter-finalists.

October 20, 1964
14:00

Japan	1–6	Yugoslavia
Kamamoto 61'	Report	Zambata 3', 5', 43', 63' Osim 28', 60'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Imam (UAE)

Gymnastics

Hockey

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was conducted by breaking the 15 teams into two groups of 7 and 8 teams. The groups then played a round-robin tournament with each team playing the other teams in the group once. 2 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals while the third and fourth played in consolation semifinals.

Group A

Place	Team	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points
1.	Pakistan (PAK)	6	0	0	12 QS
2.	Australia (AUS)	4	0	2	8 QS
3.	Kenya (KEN)	3	1	2	7 QC
4.	Japan (JPN)	3	0	3	6 QC
5.	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	4	4
6.	Rhodesia (RHO)	1	1	4	3
7.	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	5	2

• Pakistan def. Japan 1-0
• Australia def. Japan 3-1
• Japan def. Kenya 2-0
• Great Britain def. Japan 1-0
• Japan def. Rhodesia 2-1
• Japan def. New Zealand 1-0

Semifinals

The top two teams in each of the groups played in the 1st-4th semifinals, with the winner of each group playing the second-place team in the other group. The third and fourth team in each group played in the consolation semifinals

Round	Winner	Score	Loser
Consolation	United Team of Germany (EUA)	5-1	Japan (JPN)

Judo

Four judoka, all male, represented Japan in 1964.

Men's lightweight

• Takehide Nakatani

Men's mightweight

• Isao Okano

Men's heavyweight

• Isao Inokuma

Men's open class

• Akio Kaminaga

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1964.

Individual

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Team

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Rowing

Men

Sailing

Open

Shooting

Ten shooters represented Japan in 1964. Yoshihisa Yoshikawa won the bronze medal in the 50 m pistol event.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Toshiyasu Ishige	Trap	184	30
Takao Ishii	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1128	25
	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	584	48
Kanji Kubo	25 m rapid fire pistol	587	8
Osamu Ochiai		579	24
Akihiro Rinzaki	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	594	6
Shigemi Saito	Men's 300 metre rifle three positions	1096	20
	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1106	34
Mitsuo Sanami	Trap	189	15
Shinji Takahashi	50 m pistol	536	26
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa		554
Hajime Watanuki	Men's 300 metre rifle three positions	1028	28

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tatsuo Fujimoto	100 metre freestyle	55.8	1 Q	55.8	6	Did not advance
Shigeo Fukushima	200 metre backststroke	2:14.7	1 Q	2:14.1	2 Q	2:13.2	4
Tadaharu Goto	100 metre freestyle	55.8	2 Q	55.6	5	Did not advance
Keisuke Ito	200 metre backststroke	2:16.7	2 Q	2:17.6	7	Did not advance
Kazuyuki Iwamoto	1500 metre freestyle	17:52.7	3	Did not advance
Yoshinori Kadonaga	200 metre butterfly	2:14.5	3 Q	2:12.3	3 Q	2:12.6	6
Kenjiro Matsumoto	200 metre breaststroke	2:33.8	1 Q	2:34.3	5	Did not advance
Satoru Nakano	1500 metre freestyle	17:40.4	2	Did not advance
Atsushi Obayashi	200 metre butterfly	2:15.1	2 Q	2:14.1	5	Did not advance
Yukiaki Okabe	100 metre freestyle	54.4	2 Q	55.2	3	Did not advance
Isagi Osumi	200 metre backststroke	2:17.3	2 Q	2:17.0	5	Did not advance
Sueaki Sasaki	1500 metre freestyle	17:28.8	2 Q	—		17:25.3	6
Kosuke Sato	200 metre butterfly	2:12.4	2 Q	2:13.4	5	Did not advance
Yoshiaki Shikiishi	200 metre breaststroke	2:32.3	2 Q	2:34.5	6	Did not advance
Osamu Tsurumine		2:34.1	2 Q	2:33.3	4 Q	2:33.6	6
Takeshi Yamakage	400 metre freestyle	4:27.8	3	Did not advance
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka		4:21.1	1 Q	—		4:19.1	6
Haruo Yoshimuta		4:28.8	2	Did not advance
Kunihiro Iwasaki Tadaharu Goto Tatsuo Fujimoto Yukiaki Okabe Katsuki Ishihara	4 × 400 metre freestyle relay	3:42.3	3 Q	—		3:40.5	4
Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki Toshio Shoji Yukiaki Okabe	4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	8:10.4	2 Q	—		8:03.8
Shigeo Fukushima Kenji Ishikawa Isao Nakajima Yukiaki Okabe	4 × 100 metre medley relay	4:07.3	2 Q	—		4:06,6	5

Women

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Soviet Union	9	8	1	17	25	5	5.000	415	279	1.487
2	Czechoslovakia	9	8	1	17	26	10	2.600	486	399	1.218
3	Japan	9	7	2	16	22	12	1.833	475	372	1.277
4	Romania	9	6	3	15	19	15	1.267	432	394	1.096
5	Bulgaria	9	5	4	14	20	16	1.250	464	429	1.082
6	Hungary	9	4	5	13	18	18	1.000	449	466	0.964
7	Brazil	9	3	6	12	13	23	0.565	410	474	0.865
8	Netherlands	9	2	7	11	11	24	0.458	378	482	0.784
9	United States	9	2	7	11	10	23	0.435	360	450	0.800
10	South Korea	9	0	9	9	9	27	0.333	376	500	0.752

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Oct	Japan	3–0	South Korea	17–15	15–8	15–3			47–26
14 Oct	Hungary	3–0	Japan	15–12	15–8	15–12			45–32
15 Oct	Czechoslovakia	3–1	Japan	9–15	15–13	15–12	15–13		54–53
17 Oct	Japan	3–1	Bulgaria	15–10	12–15	15–6	15–10		57–41
18 Oct	Japan	3–1	United States	15–12	15–10	13–15	15–11		58–48
19 Oct	Japan	3–1	Soviet Union	14–16	15–5	15–8	15–10		59–39
21 Oct	Japan	3–2	Brazil	15–12	15–9	12–15	7–15	15–11	64–62
22 Oct	Japan	3–0	Romania	15–6	15–9	15–8			45–23
23 Oct	Japan	3–1	Netherlands	15–17	15–4	15–8	15–5		60–34

Team roster

• Yutaka Demachi
• Tsutomu Koyama
• Sadatoshi Sugahara
• Naohiro Ikeda
• Yassu Saito
• Toshiaki Kosedo
• Tokihiko Higuchi
• Masayuki Minami
• Takeshi Tokutomi
• Teruhisa Moriyama
• Yūzo Nakamura
• Katsutoshi Nekoda

Women's team competition

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Japan	5	5	0	10	15	1	15.000	238	93	2.559
2	Soviet Union	5	4	1	9	12	3	4.000	212	97	2.186
3	Poland	5	3	2	8	10	6	1.667	180	162	1.111
4	Romania	5	2	3	7	6	9	0.667	140	172	0.814
5	United States	5	1	4	6	3	12	0.250	98	213	0.460
6	South Korea	5	0	5	5	0	15	0.000	94	225	0.418

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
11 Oct	15:15	United States	0–3	Japan	1–15	5–15	2–15			8–45	Report
12 Oct	19:15	Romania	0–3	Japan	7–15	3–15	8–15			18–45	Report
14 Oct	20:30	South Korea	0–3	Japan	3–15	2–15	4–15			9–45	Report
18 Oct	13:50	Poland	1–3	Japan	4–15	5–15	15–13	2–15		26–58	Report
23 Oct	19:35	Japan	3–0	Soviet Union	15–11	15–8	15–13			45–32	Report

Final standings

Place	Team	Pts	W	L	SF	SA	PF	PA
	Japan	10	5	0	15	1	238	93
	Soviet Union	8	4	1	12	3	212	97
	Poland	6	3	2	10	6	180	162
4	Romania	4	2	3	6	9	140	172
5	United States	2	1	4	3	12	98	213
6	South Korea	0	0	5	0	15	94	225

Team roster

• Masae Kasai
• Emiko Miyamoto
• Kinuko Tanida
• Yuriko Handa
• Yoshiko Matsumura
• Sata Isobe
• Katsumi Matsumura
• Yoko Shinozaki
• Setsuko Sasaki
• Yuko Fujimoto
• Masako Kondo
• Ayano Shibuki

Head coach: Hirofumi Daimatsu

Water polo

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Italy	2	2	0	0	9	6	+3	4
2	Romania	2	1	0	1	12	8	+4	2
3	Japan	2	0	0	2	7	14	−7	0

• October 11, 1964

Italy	4 – 3	Romania

• October 12, 1964

Italy	5 – 3	Japan

• October 13, 1964

Romania	9 – 4	Japan

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Military Press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yukio Furuyama	56 kg	105.0	6	100.0	8	130.0	9	335.0	6
Shiro Ishinoseki		100.0	9	110.0	1	137.5	3	347.5
Hiroshi Fukuda	60 kg	120.0	3	115.0	2	140.0	5	375.0	4
Yoshinobu Miyake		122.5	1	122.5	1	152.5	1	397.5
Hiroshi Yamazaki	67.5 kg	120.0	9	120.0	5	157.5	5	397.5	6
Sadahiro Miwa	75 kg	120.0	10	132.5	3	170.0	4	422.5	5
Masashi Ohuchi		140.0	1	135.0	2	162.5	6	437.5

Wrestling