1964 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)

JPN

16	5	8th

Japan took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a delegation of 328 athletes (270 men and 58 women) in 155 competitions in 21 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the freestyle swimmer Makoto Fukui .

With 29 medals, the host nation took third place in the medal table. The most successful athletes were the gymnasts Yukio Endo and Shūji Tsurumi , each with four medals. In the team competition, Takashi Ono , who swore the Olympic oath at the opening ceremony , won his 13th and final Olympic medal. His wife Kiyoko Ono won bronze with the women's team. The nation was also successful in volleyball, which was held for the first time: the women's team won the gold medal, the men won bronze, but were able to defeat the tournament winners from the Soviet Union. Furthermore, successes for Japan were achieved in judo, which was also on the agenda for the first time: The Japanese athlete was able to prevail in three of the four tournaments, only Akio Kaminaga had to admit defeat to the Dutchman Anton Geesink in the final of the Open Class .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 10th place

• Katsuo Bai
• Yoshitaka Egawa
• Seiji Fujie
• Nobuo Kaiho
• Akira Kodama
• Takashi Masuda
• Fumihiko Moroyama
• Kunihiko Nakamura
• Setsuo Nara
• Masashi Shiga
• Katsuji Tsunoda
• Kaoru Wakabayashi

Boxing

Men

• Kichijiro Hamada
• Tadayuki Maruyama
• Koji Masuda
• Takao Sakurai

  Gold bantamweight

• Kanemaru Shiratori
• Masakuzu Takayama
• Hitoshi Tenma
• Hoji Yonekura
• Shuta Yoshino

fencing

Men Toshiaki Araki Mitsuyuki Funamizu Teruhiro Kitao Kazuo Mano Katsutada Minatoi Heizaburo Okawa Seiji Shibata Fujio Shimizu Kazuhiko Tabuchi Takeshi Teshima Sosuke Toda

Women Yoshie Komori Tomoko Owada Yoshie Takeuchi Tamiko Yasui

Soccer

Men

• Quarter finals

• Squad
  • goal

  1 Tsukasa Hosaka

  21 Kenzō Yokoyama

  • Defense

  2 Hiroshi Katayama

  3 Masakatsu Miyamoto

  4 Ryūzō Hiraki

  5 Yoshitada Yamaguchi

  7 Hisao Kami

  8 Mitsuo Kamata

  9 Kiyoshi Tomizawa

  • midfield

  6 Ryōzō Suzuki

  10 Aritatsu Ogi

  11 Takaji Mori

  12 Saburō Kawabuchi

  16 Teruki Miyamoto

  17 Shōzō Tsugitani

  • Storm

  13 Shigeo Yaegashi

  14 Masashi Watanabe

  15 Kunishige Kamamoto

  18 Ryuichi Sugiyama

The coach of the Japanese selection was the German Dettmar Cramer .

Weightlifting

Men

• Hiroshi Fukuda
• Yukio Furuyama
• Shiro Ichinoseki

  Bronze bantam weight

• Sadahiro Miwa
• Yoshinobu Miyake

  Gold featherweight

• Masashi Ohuchi

  Bronze middleweight

• Hiroshi Yamazaki

hockey

Men

• 7th place

• Kunio Iwahashi
• Shigeo Kaoku
• Seiji Kihara
• Hiroshi Miwa
• Michio Okabe
• Akio Takashima
• Kenji Takizawa
• Hiroshi Tanaka
• Tetsuya Wakabayashi
• Junichi Yamaguchi
• Toshihiko Yamaoka
• Katsuhiro Yuzaki
• Tsuneya Yuzaki

Judo

Men

• Isao Inokuma

  Gold heavyweight

• Akio Kaminaga

  Silver Open Class

• Takehide Nakatani

  Gold lightweight

• Isao Okano

  Gold middleweight

canoe

Men Izumi Eto Daisaburo Honda Shunichi Iwamura Katsufusa Kashimura Hideo Kobayashi Tadamasa Sato Hideo Shigashiyama Tomio Sumimoto Yuji Umezawa Shoji Yoshio

Women Keiko Okamoto Hiroko Oshima

athletics

Men Yoshihiro Amano Kiyoshi Asai Tadamasa Ejiri Teruo Funai Hirotada Hayase Toru Honda Hideo Iijima Keiko Iijima Noboru Ishiguro Teruo Itokawa Satsuo Iwashita Masaru Kamata Hideta Kanai Shohei Kaneko Shohei Kasahara Koro Kawazu Kenji Kimihara Kiue Kuribayashi Takashi Miki Sumio Miwa Kinya Miyazaki Mamoru Morimoto Hisao Morita Yojiro Muro Yasuo Naito Keiji Ogushi Noboru Okamoto Takayuki Okazaki Zenji Okuzawa Tomio Ota Masashi Otsubo Kazuo Saito Kōji Sakurai Taketsugu Saruwatari Takeo Sugawara Kuniyoshi Sugioka Shosuke Suzuki Satoshi Takayanagi Akira Tanaka Tōru Terasawa Yoshimasa Torii Kōkichi Tsuburaya Bronze marathon Kazumi Watanabe Hiroomi Yamada Toichi Yamaguchi Hirokazu Yasuda Saburo Yokomizo Masami Yoshida Kiyoo Yui

Women Reiko Ezoe Takao Inoguchi Makiko Izawa Misako Katayama Masako Kisaki Sachiko Kishimoto Emiko Koumaru Etsuko Miyamoto Seiko Obonai Kiyoko Ogawa Hiroko Satō Miyuki Takahashi Mitsuko Torii Hiroko Uchida-Yokoyama Ikuko Yoda

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino
• Shigeaki Uchino

Cycling

Men

• Toshiro Akamatsu
• Hirotsugu Fukuhara
• Norio Hotogi
• Fujio Ito
• Takehisa Kato
• Tsuyoshi Kawachi
• Hideo Madarame
• Masashi Omiya
• Katsuhiko Sato
• Yoshio Shimura
• Kosaku Takahashi
• Toshimitsu Teshima
• Masanori Tsuji
• Hiromi Yamafuji
• Hiroshi Yamao

horse riding

• Mikio Chiba
• Hiroshi Hoketsu
• Kikuko Inoue
• Yuzo Kageyama
• Masanori Katsumoto
• Rikutoshi Maeda
• Masaki Matsudaira
• Yoritsune Matsudaira
• Nagahira Okabe
• Shinzo Sasa

Wrestling

Men

• Tokuaki Fujita
• Tsutomu Hanahara

  Gold flyweight Greco-Roman

• Kenjiro Hiraki
• Iwao Horiuchi

  Bronze lightweight freestyle

• Masamitsu Ichiguchi

  Gold bantamweight Greco-Roman

• Shunichi Kawano
• Sadao Kazama
• Akira Nakaura
• Masanori Saito
• Kōji Sakurama
• Tatsuo Sasaki
• Tsuneharu Sugiyama
• Yōjirō Uetake

  Gold Bantamweight Freestyle

• Osamu Watanabe

  Gold featherweight freestyle

• Yasuo Watanabe
• Yoshikatsu Yoshida

  Gold flyweight freestyle

rowing

Men

• Hideaki Aida
• Toshihiro Hamada
• Shin Hasegawa
• Yasuji Honma
• Susumi Hosoya
• Katsuhiko Ihara
• Hajime Ishikawa
• Tsugio Ito
• Satoomi Kasagi
• Ryuzo Kikuchi
• Bunzo Kimura
• Takao Kogo
• Norimasa Kurosaki
• Osamu Mandai
• Yukio Matsuda
• Shunsuke Miki
• Koichi Miyano
• Yasushi Murase
• Hideo Oe
• Tsuneo Ogasawara
• Yoshihiro Onishi
• Naoji Sato
• Masahiro Takatsuki
• Koju Tsukamoto
• Masakatsu Yamanouchi
• Noriichi Yoshino

shoot

Men

• Toshiyasu Ishige
• Takao Ishii
• Kanji Kubo
• Osamu Ochiai
• Akihiro Rinzaki
• Shigemi Saito
• Mitsuo Sanami
• Shinji Takahashi
• Hajime Watanuki
• Yoshihisa Yoshikawa

  Bronze free pistol 50 m

swim

Men Tatsuo Fujimoto Makoto Fukui Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Shigeo Fukushima Tadaharu Goto Katsuki Ishihara Kenji Ishikawa Keisuke Ito Kazuyuki Iwamoto Kunihiro Iwasaki Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Yoshinori Kadonaga Kenjiro Matsumoto Isao Nakajima Satoru Nakano Atsushi Obayashi Yukiaki Okabe Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Isagi Osumi Sueaki Sasaki Kosuke Sato Yoshiaki Shikishi Toshio Shoji Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Osamu Tsurumine Takeshi Yamakage Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Haruo Yoshimuta

Women Miyoko Azuma Kimiko Ezaka Kazue Hayakawa Michiko Kihara Tazuko Kikutani Toyoko Kimura Natsuko Matsuda Yoshiko Morizane Hiroko Saito Kimiko Sato Eiko Takahashi Satoko Tanaka Ryoko Urakami Noriko Yamamoto

sailing

• Tadashi Funaoka
• Takeshi Hagiwara
• Teruyuki Horie
• Masayuki Ishii
• Kenjiro Matsuda
• Fujiya Matsumoto
• Takafumi Okubo
• Yasutoshi Tagami
• Saburo Tanamachi
• Takashi Yamada
• Masao Yoshida

do gymnastics

Men Gold team all- around Yukio Endo Gold individual all-around Silver bottom Gold bars Takuji Hayata Gold rings Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shūji Tsurumi Silver individual all-around Silver bars Silver pommel horse Haruhiro Yamashita Gold horse

Women Bronze team all- around Ginko Abukawa-Chiba Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri Kiyoko Ono Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda Hiroko Tsuji

volleyball

Men bronze Yutaka Demachi Naohiro Ikeda Toshiaki Kosedo Tsutomu Koyama Masayuki Minami Teruhisa Moriyama Katsutoshi Nekoda Yasutaka Sato Sadatoshi Sugahara

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

Water polo

Men

• Preliminary round

• Hachiro Arakawa
• Shigenobu Fujimoto
• Mineo Kato
• Keisuke Satsuke
• Yoji Shimizu
• Koki Takagi
• Kazuya Takeuchi
• Takashi Yokoyama

Diving

Men Yosuke Arimitsu Shunsuke Kaneto Toshio Otsubo Tadao Tosa Toshio Yamano

Women Hatsuko Hirose-Kawai Keiko Osaki-Otsubo Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi Kumiko Watanabe

Web links

• Japanese Olympic team from 1964 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )