Japan at the 1964 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1964
Website:
Location:	Tokyo
Competitors:	328 (270 men and 58 women)
Sports:	21
Flagbearer:	Makoto Fukui
Rank:	3
Gold:	16
Silver:	5
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

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

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				October 12
				October 14
				October 14
				October 14
				October 19
				October 19
				October 20
				October 20
				October 20
				October 21
				October 22
				October 22
				October 23
				October 23
				October 23
				October 23
				October 20
				October 22
				October 22
				October 23
				October 23
				October 11
				October 14
				October 14
				October 18
				October 18
				October 21
				October 21
				October 23

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
	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

See main article: Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group A

October 1112 OctoberOctober 13October 14October 16October 17October 18

Classification brackets

9th–12th Place21 October9th Place23 October

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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	L 2-3	Did not advance
Takao Sakurai	Bantamweight	W 4-1	W 5–0	W 5–0	W 5-0	W RSC
Masataka Takayama	Featherweight	W 5–0	L RSC	Did not advance
Kanemaru Shiratori	Lightweight	W KO	L 0-5	Did not advance
Hoji Yonekura	Light welterweight	W 3-2	L 2-3	Did not advance
Kichijiro Hamada	Welterweight	W 5-0	W 5–0	L 0-5	Did not advance
Koji Masuda	Light middleweight	W RSC	L 2-3	Did not advance
Hitoshi Tenma	Middleweight	L 0-5	Did not advance
Tadayuki Maruyama	Heavyweight	L 0-5	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shoji Yoshio	C-1 1000 m	5:05.11	4 QS	5:00.88	4	Did not advance
Shunichi Iwamura Daisaburo Honda	C-2 1000 m	4:25.86	5 QR	4:40.54	4	Did not advance
Hideo Higashiyama	K-1 1000 m	4:17.47	6 QR	4:42.93	1 QS	4:17.44	4	Did not advance
Hideo Kobayashi Katsufusa Kashimura	K-2 1000 m	4:00.94	8 QR	4:03.67	4	Did not advance
Izumi Eto Tomio Sumimoto Tadamasa Sato Yuji Umezawa	K-4 1000 m	3:33.25	8 QR	3:34.68	4	Did not advance

Women

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics. 15 cyclists represented Japan in 1964.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Toshiro Akamatsu	align=left rowspan=4	Men's road race	4:39:51.83	106
Masashi Omiya	4:39:51.76	37
align=left rowspan=1	Masanori Tsuji	DNF
align=left rowspan=1	Hiroshi Yamao	4:39:51.83	105
Takehisa Kato Masashi Omiya Yoshio Shimura Hirotsugu Fukuhara	Team time trial	2:40:13.27	19

Track

1000m time trial

Men's tandem

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	L	L	Did not advance
Katsuhiko Sato	Men's sprint	W 11.92	L	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	W 5:17.57	Did not advance
Norio Hotogi Fujio Ito Kosaku Takahashi Hiromi Yamafuji	Team pursuit	W 4:55.04	Did not advance

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Yosuke Arimitsu	10 m platform	90.56	14	Did not advance
	3 m springboard	71.59	24	Did not advance
	10 m platform	91.31	11	Did not advance
Toshio Otsubo	10 m platform	94.32	3 Q	47.73	8	142.05	8
Tadao Tosa	3 m springboard	89.10	11	Did not advance
	3 m springboard	81.74	21	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Hatsuko Kawai-Hirose	10 m platform	45.00	16	Did not advance
Keiko Osaki		45.20	15	Did not advance
	3 m springboard	85.27	7 Q	40.01	7	125.28	7
Kumiko Watanabe		84.40	9 Q	35.94	9	120.34	9
	10 m platform	43.50	18	Did not advance

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Kikuko Inoue	Katsunobori	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	648.0	16	Did not advance
Okabe Nagahira	Seiha	589.5	19	Did not advance
Matsudaira Yorisuke	Hamachidori	542.0	21	Did not advance
Inoue Kikuko Okabe Nagahira Matsudaira Yorisuke	See above	Team	1779.5	6

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification			Final
			Dressage	Cross country	Show jumping	Penalties	Rank
Matsudaira Masaki	Nippo	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	73.33	EL	Did not advance
Katsumoto Masanori	Eiten	72.00	EL	Did not advance
Chiba Mikio	Mauta	63.67	174.8	30.00	268.47	34
Maeda Rikutoshi	Hogetsu	76.00	EL	Did not advance
Chiba Mikio Matsudaira Masaki Maeda Rikutoshi	See above	Team	268.47	EL	Did not advance

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Total	Rank
Hiroshi Hoketsu	Raro	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	63.75	41	48.00	39	111.75	40
Sasa Shinzo	Snaefell	46.75	40	24.00	32	70.75	38
Kageyama Yuzo	Tokinoarashi	EL	Did not advance
Hiroshi Hoketsu Sasa Shinzo Kageyama Yuzo	See above	Team	340.00	12

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group D

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First consolation round

Played by losing quarter-finalists.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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
width=30	1.	align=left		6	0	0	12 QS
2.	align=left		4	0	2	8 QS
3.	align=left		3	1	2	7 QC
4.	align=left		3	0	3	6 QC
5.	align=left		2	0	4	4
6.	align=left		1	1	4	3
7.	align=left		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		5-1

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1964.

Individual

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Team

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Satoomi Kasagi	Single sculls	8:16.96	4 R	8:13.44	3 FB	7:37.90	11
Susumi Hosoya Yasushi Murase	Double sculls	7:25.64	3 R	7:18.98	3 FB	7:15.22	10
Takao Kogo Norimasa Kurosaki	Coxless pair	7:48.15	5 R	7:54.43	4	7:54.43	14
Toshihiro Hamada Katsuhiko Ihara Masahiro Takatsuki	Coxed pair	8:32.51	5 R	8:05.30	4	8:05.30	15
Shunsuke Miki Koju Tsukamoto Yasuji Honma Bunzo Kimura	Coxless four	7:24.35	5 R	7:00.29	3 FB	6:51.60	12
Hideo Oe Yukio Matsuda Hideaki Aida Masakatsu Yamanouchi Noriichi Yoshino	Coxed four	7:10.77	5 R	7:31.60	4	7:31.60	14
Naoji Sato Koichi Miyano Tsugio Ito Tsuneo Ogasawara Yoshihiro Onishi Shin Hasegawa Hajime Ishikawa Ryuzo Kikuchi Osamu Mandai	Eight	6:16.67	3 R	6:10.15	2 FB	6:05.14	10

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Open

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Takashi Yamada	Finn	18	21	17	18	14	20	11	2486	21
Yasutoshi Tagami Kendjiro Matsuda	Flying Dutchman	9	6	13	DNF	15	16	14	2166	15
Masayuki Ishii Takafumi Okubo	Star	15	11	7	13	13	16	DSQ	1494	13
Saburo Tanamachi Tadashi Funaoka Teruyuki Hiiro	Dragon	17	18	17	14	16	16	10	1762	17
Fujiya Matsumoto Masao Yoshida Takeshi Hagiwara	5.5 Metre	12	11	14	12	13	14	13	1070	14

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

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

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=1	Miyoko Azuma	100 metre freestyle	1:06.4	6	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Kimiko Ezaka	400 metre individual medley	5:42.1	4	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Kazue Hayakawa	align=left rowspan=1	400 metre freestyle	4:56.5	3	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Michiko Kihara	100 metre backststroke	1:11.1	3	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Tazuko Kikutani	align=left rowspan=1	400 metre freestyle	5:06.3	5	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Toyoko Kimura	100 metre freestyle	1:04.8	4	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Natsuko Matsuda	400 metre individual medley	5:51.5	4	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Yoshiko Morizane	200 metre breaststroke	2:59.9	6	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Hiroko Saito	align=left rowspan=3	100 metre butterfly	1:13.1	5	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1		1:10.6	4 Q	1:11.2	8	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Eiko Takahashi	1:08.4	2 Q	1:07.8	3 Q	1:09.1	7
align=left rowspan=1		100 metre backststroke	1:10.0	2 Q	1:08.6	4
align=left rowspan=1	Ryoko Urakami	100 metre freestyle	1:04.5	5	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1		align=left rowspan=1	200 metre breaststroke	2:57.0	5	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Ryoko Urakami Michiko Kihara Toyoko Kimura Miyoko Azuma	align=left rowspan=1	4 × 400 metre freestyle relay	4:19.2	5	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=1	Satoko Tanaka Noriko Yamamoto Eiko Takahashi Michiko Kihara	align=left rowspan=1	4 × 100 metre medley relay	4:40.6	2 Q	4:42.0	4

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

See main article: Volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. 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

See main article: Volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Final standings

width=35	Place	width=185	Team	width=20	Pts	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	SF	width=20	SA	width=20	PF	width=20	PA
		10	5	0	15	1	238	93
		8	4	1	12	3	212	97
		6	3	2	10	6	180	162
4		4	2	3	6	9	140	172
5		2	1	4	3	12	98	213
6		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

See main article: Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group A

• October 11, 1964

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	4 – 3

• October 12, 1964

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	5 – 3

• October 13, 1964

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	9 – 4

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Military Press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yukio Furuyama	align=left rowspan=2	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	align=left rowspan=2	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	align=left rowspan=1	67.5 kg	120.0	9	120.0	5	157.5	5	397.5	6
Sadahiro Miwa	align=left rowspan=2	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

See main article: Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Japan at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games . 10 August 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808160653/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JPN/summer/1964/ . 8 August 2014 .