1964 Summer Olympics / Participant (Japan)
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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
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Soccer
Men
- Quarter finals
- Squad
- goal
- 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
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 |
Women |
athletics
Modern pentathlon
Men
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
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Women |
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
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Women
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volleyball
Men |
Women |
Water polo
Men
- Preliminary round
- Hachiro Arakawa
- Shigenobu Fujimoto
- Mineo Kato
- Keisuke Satsuke
- Yoji Shimizu
- Koki Takagi
- Kazuya Takeuchi
- Takashi Yokoyama
Diving
Men |
Women |
Web links
- Japanese Olympic team from 1964 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )