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

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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.

Track

 * 1000m time trial
 * Men's tandem
 * Men's Sprint


 * Pursuit

Diving

 * Men
 * Women

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

First consolation round
Played by losing quarter-finalists.

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

 * 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

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

Swimming

 * Men
 * Women

Men's team competition
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

 * Final standings

Team roster Head coach: Hirofumi Daimatsu
 * Masae Kasai
 * Emiko Miyamoto
 * Kinuko Tanida
 * Yuriko Handa
 * Yoshiko Matsumura
 * Sata Isobe
 * Katsumi Matsumura
 * Yoko Shinozaki
 * Setsuko Sasaki
 * Yuko Fujimoto
 * Masako Kondo
 * Ayano Shibuki

Group A

 * October 11, 1964


 * October 12, 1964


 * October 13, 1964

Weightlifting

 * Men