# Japan at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Yoshihiro Ohira | Downhill | 2:40.82 | 57 |
| Tsuneo Noto | Downhill | 2:34.76 | 46 |
| Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Downhill | 2:34.55 | 45 |
| Hajime Tomii | Downhill | 2:30.02 | 33 |
| Yoshinari Kida | Giant Slalom | 2:04.22 | 39 |
| Tsuneo Noto | Giant Slalom | 2:01.26 | 35 |
| Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Giant Slalom | 1:58.35 | 25 |
| Hajime Tomii | Giant Slalom | 1:56.65 | 22 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Hajime Tomii | 1:20.85 | 78 | 57.44 | 17 QF | 1:18.49 | 32 | 1:06.60 | 27 | 2:25.09 | 31 |
| Yoshiharu Fukuharu | 1:01.66 | 49 | 54.07 | 2 QF | 1:14.35 | 19 | 1:06.36 | 24 | 2:20.71 | 23 |
| Yoshinari Kida | 57.36 | 37 | 58.06 | 18 QF | 1:19.11 | 35 | 1:10.00 | 35 | 2:29.11 | 34 |
| Yoshihiro Ohira | 56.31 | 31 | 59.09 | 19 QF | 1:28.79 | 41 | 1:09.08 | 33 | 2:37.87 | 38 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Yoshio Ninomine | 1'29:38.6 | 3 | 1'35:38.6 | 26 |
| 20 km | Yuji Yamanaka | 1'29:51.8 | 2 | 1'33:51.8 | 19 |
    $^1$ Two minutes added per miss.

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Chogoro Yahata | 1'00:46.1 | 58 |
| 15 km | Hidezo Takahashi | 57:03.4 | 42 |
| 15 km | Kazuo Sato | 56:04.5 | 35 |
| 15 km | Tatsuo Kitamura | 55:24.3 | 26 |
| 30 km | Chogoro Yahata | 1'51:45.3 | 62 |
| 30 km | Tatsuo Kitamura | 1'46:13.4 | 51 |
| 30 km | Hidezo Takahashi | 1'43:11.0 | 47 |
| 30 km | Kazuo Sato | 1'42:39.2 | 41 |
| 50 km | Chogoro Yahata | DNF | – |
| 50 km | Hidezo Takahashi | 3'14:31.4 | 35 |
| 50 km | Kazuo Sato | 3'03:57.9 | 27 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Hidezo Takahashi Kazuo Sato Tatsuo Kitamura Chogoro Yahata | 2'32:05.5 | 10 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Nobuo Sato | 8 | 10 | 1746.2 | 88 | 8 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Junko Ueno | 14 | 26 | 1685.0 | 170 | 22 |
| Kumiko Okawa | 15 | 11 | 1725.4 | 136 | 13 |
| Miwa Fukuhara | 4 | 9 | 1845.1 | 50 | 5 |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Czechoslovakia | 17–2 | Japan |

### Consolation round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 9 | Poland | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 12 |
| 10 | Norway | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 10 |
| 11 | Japan | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 31 | 9 |
| 12 | Romania | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 28 | 7 |
| 13 | Austria | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 28 | 7 |
| 14 | Yugoslavia | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 37 | 7 |
| 15 | Italy | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 42 | 4 |
| 16 | Hungary | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 39 | 0 |
* Japan 4-3 Norway
* Japan 6-4 Romania
* Austria 5-5 Japan
* Yugoslavia 6-4 Japan
* Japan 4-3 Poland
* Japan 6-2 Hungary
* Italy 8-6 Japan
* Contestants Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Koji Iwamoto Kimio Kazahari Isao Kawabuchi Kimihisa Kudo Hiroyuki Matsuura Katsuji Morishima Minoru Nakano Jiro Ogawa Isao Ono Masahiro Sato Shigeru Shimada Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Takashi Fujisawa | Individual | 63.5 | 68.0 | 208.1 | 12 | 56:31.0 | 167.12 | 26 | 375.22 | 20 |
| Akemi Taniguchi | Individual | 57.0 (fall) | 56.5 | 121.5 | 32 | 56:14.1 | 170.01 | 22 | 291.51 | 31 |
| Eiichi Tanaka | Individual | 62.5 | 62.0 | 190.2 | 22 | 58:23.9 | 147.30 | 31 | 337.50 | 30 |

## Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Naoki Shimura | Normal hill | 71.5 | 95.2 | 71.0 | 95.7 | 190.9 | 40 |
| Yosuke Eto | Normal hill | 72.0 | 98.4 | 73.0 | 100.0 | 198.4 | 27 |
| Sadao Kikuchi | Normal hill | 74.0 | 99.7 | 72.5 | 98.8 | 198.5 | 26 |
| Yukio Kasaya | Normal hill | 74.5 | 101.4 | 73.5 | 99.2 | 200.6 | 23 |
| Yosuke Eto | Large hill | 80.0 | 91.4 | 70.0 | 86.4 | 177.8 | 44 |
| Sadao Kikuchi | Large hill | 78.5 | 87.4 | 74.5 | 87.4 | 174.8 | 47 |
| Naoki Shimura | Large hill | 82.0 | 94.1 | 76.5 | 90.4 | 184.5 | 37 |
| Yukio Kasaya | Large hill | 87.0 | 101.6 | 86.0 | 105.1 | 206.7 | 11 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Satoshi Shinpo | 44.4 | 41 |
| 500 m | Fumio Nagakubo | 41.8 | 16 |
| 500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 40.7 | 5 |
| 1500 m | Toyofumi Aruga | 2:20.7 | 41 |
| 1500 m | Satoshi Shinpo | 2:18.5 | 34 |
| 1500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 2:17.5 | 31 |
| 5000 m | Yoshihiro Kawano | 8:19.4 | 26 |
| 5000 m | Toyofumi Aruga | 8:15.9 | 24 |
| 5000 m | Satoshi Shinpo | 8:12.5 | 23 |
| 10,000 m | Yoshihiro Kawano | 17:39.0 | 32 |
| 10,000 m | Satoshi Shinpo | 17:11.3 | 24 |
| 10,000 m | Toyofumi Aruga | 17:09.9 | 22 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Kaneko Takahashi | 50.5 | 24 |
| 500 m | Yasuko Takano | 49.3 | 19 |
| 500 m | Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa | 47.9 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa | DNF | – |
| 1000 m | Yasuko Takano | 1:41.6 | 20 |
| 1000 m | Kaneko Takahashi | 1:40.5 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Kaneko Takahashi | 2:34.6 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Yasuko Takano | 2:33.1 | 14 |
| 1500 m | Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa | 2:30.9 | 10 |
| 3000 m | Kaneko Takahashi | 5:39.6 | 16 |
| 3000 m | Yasuko Takano | 5:30.4 | 12 |
| 3000 m | Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa | 5:25.4 | 6 |