Japan at the 1964 Summer Olympics


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.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
WeightliftingMen's featherweightOctober 12
WrestlingMen's freestyle flyweightOctober 14
WrestlingMen's freestyle bantamweightOctober 14
WrestlingMen's freestyle featherweightOctober 14
WrestlingMen's Greco-Roman flyweightOctober 19
WrestlingMen's Greco-Roman bantamweightOctober 19
JudoMen's lightweightOctober 20
JudoMen's middlewightOctober 21
JudoMen's heavyweightOctober 22
BoxingMen's bantamweightOctober 23

Shuji Tsurumi
Haruhiro Yamashita
Yukio Endo
Takuji Hayata
Takashi Mitsukuri		GymnasticsMen's team all-aroundOctober 20
GymnasticsMen's individual all-aroundOctober 20
GymnasticsMen's ringsOctober 22
GymnasticsMen's parallel barsOctober 23
GymnasticsMen's vaultOctober 23

Emiko Miyamoto
Kinuko Tanida
Yuriko Handa
Yoshiko Matsumura
Sata Isobe
Katsumi Matsumura
Yoko Shinozaki
Setsuko Sasaki
Yuko Fujimoto
Masako Kondo
Ayano Shibuki		VolleyballWomen's tournamentOctober 23
GymnasticsMen's individual all-aroundOctober 20
Yukio EndoGymnasticsMen's floorOctober 22
GymnasticsMen's pommel horseOctober 22
GymnasticsMen's parallel barsOctober 23
JudoMen's open categoryOctober 23
WeightliftingMen's bantamweightOctober 11
WeightliftingMen's middleweightOctober 14
WrestlingMen's freestyle lightweightOctober 14
ShootingMen's 50 metre free pistolOctober 18

Toshio Shoji
Makoto Fukui
Kunihiro Iwasaki		SwimmingMen's 4 × 200 m freestyle relayOctober 18
AthleticsMen's marathonOctober 21

Kiyoko Ono
Hiroko Tsuji
Toshiko Shirasu
Ginko Chiba
Keiko Ikeda		GymnasticsWomen's artistic team all-aroundOctober 21

Tsutomu Koyama
Sadatoshi Sugawara
Naohiro Ikeda
Yasutaka Sato
Toshiaki Kosedo
Tokihiko Higuchi
Masayuki Minami
Takeshi Tokutomi
Teruhisa Moriyama
Yūzo Nakamura
Katsutoshi Nekoda		VolleyballMen's tournamentOctober 23

Athletics

Basketball

Preliminary Round

Group A

October 11
12 October
October 13
October 14
October 16
October 17
October 18

Classification brackets

9th–12th Place
21 October
9th Place
23 October

Boxing

;Men

Canoeing

;Men
;Women

Cycling

15 cyclists represented Japan in 1964.

Road

Track

;1000m time trial
AthleteEventTimeRank
Katsuhiko SatoMen's 1000m time trial1:11.6810

;Men's tandem
;Men's Sprint
;Pursuit

Diving

;Men
;Women

Equestrian

Dressage

Eventing

Show jumping

Fencing

15 fencers, 11 men and 4 women, represented Japan in 1964.
;Men's foil
;Men's team foil
;Men's épée
;Men's team épée
;Men's sabre
;Men's team sabre
;Women's foil
;Women's team foil

First round

Group D

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Quarter-finals

First Consolation Round

Played by losing quarter-finalists.

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

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
RoundWinnerScoreLoser
Consolation5-1
Consolation---

Judo

Four judoka, all male, represented Japan in 1964.
;Men's lightweight
;Men's mightweight
;Men's heavyweight
;Men's open class
Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1964.
;Individual
;Team
;Men

Sailing

;Open

Shooting

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

Swimming

;Men
;Women

Volleyball

;Men's Team Competition

Round robin

Final standings

Group A

;Men

Wrestling