# 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

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Yoshinobu Miyake | Weightlifting | Men's featherweight | October 12 |
| Gold | Yoshikatsu Yoshida | Wrestling | Men's freestyle flyweight | October 14 |
| Gold | Yojiro Uetake | Wrestling | Men's freestyle bantamweight | October 14 |
| Gold | Osamu Watanabe | Wrestling | Men's freestyle featherweight | October 14 |
| Gold | Tsutomu Hanahara | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman flyweight | October 19 |
| Gold | Masamitsu Ichiguchi | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight | October 19 |
| Gold | Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri | Gymnastics | Men's team all-around | October 20 |
| Gold | Yukio Endo | Gymnastics | Men's individual all-around | October 20 |
| Gold | Takehide Nakatani | Judo | Men's lightweight | October 20 |
| Gold | Isao Okano | Judo | Men's middleweight | October 21 |
| Gold | Isao Inokuma | Judo | Men's heavyweight | October 22 |
| Gold | Takuji Hayata | Gymnastics | Men's rings | October 22 |
| Gold | Yukio Endo | Gymnastics | Men's parallel bars | October 23 |
| Gold | Haruhiro Yamashita | Gymnastics | Men's vault | October 23 |
| Gold | Takao Sakurai | Boxing | Men's bantamweight | October 23 |
| Gold | Masae Kasai Emiko Miyamoto Kinuko Tanida Yuriko Handa Yoshiko Matsumura Sata Isobe Katsumi Matsumura Yoko Shinozaki Setsuko Sasaki Yuko Fujimoto Masako Kondo Ayano Shibuki | Volleyball | Women's tournament | October 23 |
| Silver | Shuji Tsurumi | Gymnastics | Men's individual all-around | October 20 |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | Gymnastics | Men's floor | October 22 |
| Silver | Shuji Tsurumi | Gymnastics | Men's pommel horse | October 22 |
| Silver | Shuji Tsurumi | Gymnastics | Men's parallel bars | October 23 |
| Silver | Akio Kaminaga | Judo | Men's open category | October 23 |
| Bronze | Shiro Ichinoseki | Weightlifting | Men's bantamweight | October 11 |
| Bronze | Masashi Ohuchi | Weightlifting | Men's middleweight | October 14 |
| Bronze | Iwao Horiuchi | Wrestling | Men's freestyle lightweight | October 14 |
| Bronze | Yoshihisa Yoshikawa | Shooting | Men's 50 metre free pistol | October 18 |
| Bronze | Yukiaki Okabe Toshio Shoji Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | October 18 |
| Bronze | Kokichi Tsuburaya | Athletics | Men's marathon | October 21 |
| Bronze | Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji Toshiko Shirasu Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda | Gymnastics | Women's artistic team all-around | October 21 |
| Bronze | Yutaka Demachi Tsutomu Koyama Sadatoshi Sugawara Naohiro Ikeda Yasutaka Sato Toshiaki Kosedo Tokihiko Higuchi Masayuki Minami Takeshi Tokutomi Teruhisa Moriyama Yūzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda | Volleyball | Men's tournament | October 23 |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Gymnastics | 5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Wrestling | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Judo | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Weightlifting | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Volleyball | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Boxing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Athletics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shooting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Swimming | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | 5 | 8 | 29 |

## Basketball
### Preliminary round
### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 0 | 562 | 424 | +138 | 14 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 7 | 5 | 2 | 493 | 454 | +39 | 12 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Poland | 7 | 4 | 3 | 467 | 448 | +19 | 11 | 5th–8th classification round |
| 4 | Italy | 7 | 4 | 3 | 495 | 480 | +15 | 11 | 5th–8th classification round |
| 5 | Mexico | 7 | 3 | 4 | 485 | 514 | −29 | 10 | 9th–12th classification round |
| 6 | Japan (H) | 7 | 3 | 4 | 421 | 428 | −7 | 10 | 9th–12th classification round |
| 7 | Hungary | 7 | 2 | 5 | 407 | 469 | −62 | 9 | 13th–16th classification round |
| 8 | Canada | 7 | 0 | 7 | 408 | 521 | −113 | 7 | 13th–16th classification round |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Poland 1–0 Italy
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Mexico 1–0 Japan
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 7 | 7 | 0 | 569 | 333 | +236 | 14 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Brazil | 7 | 5 | 2 | 473 | 452 | +21 | 12 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Yugoslavia | 7 | 5 | 2 | 529 | 453 | +76 | 12 | 5th–8th classification round |
| 4 | Uruguay | 7 | 4 | 3 | 472 | 482 | −10 | 11 | 5th–8th classification round |
| 5 | Finland | 7 | 3 | 4 | 409 | 475 | −66 | 10 | 9th–12th classification round |
| 6 | Australia | 7 | 2 | 5 | 434 | 460 | −26 | 9 | 9th–12th classification round |
| 7 | Peru | 7 | 2 | 5 | 431 | 453 | −22 | 9 | 13th–16th classification round |
| 8 | South Korea | 7 | 0 | 7 | 432 | 641 | −209 | 7 | 13th–16th classification round |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Brazil 1–0 Yugoslavia
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Australia 1–0 Peru
October 11
* 17:30
| Japan | 55–65 | Puerto Rico |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
12 October
* 12:00
| Poland | 81–57 | Japan |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
October 13
* 19:00
| Canada | 37–58 | Japan |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
October 14
* 12:00
| Hungary | 41–58 | Japan |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
October 16
* 17:30
| Soviet Union | 72–59 | Japan |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
October 17
* 9:00
| Japan | 72–68 | Italy |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
October 18
* 12:00
| Japan | 62–64 | Mexico |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

### Classification brackets

9th–12th Place 21 October
* 10:00
| Japan | 54–45 | Finland |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo
9th Place 23 October
* 10:00
| Australia | 64–57 | Japan |
* Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

## Boxing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | First round | Second round | Third round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Rank |
| Shuta Yoshino | Flyweight | — | BYE | Otto Babiasch (EUA) L 2-3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Takao Sakurai | Bantamweight | — | Brian Packer (GBR) W 4-1 | Isaac Aryee (GHA) W 5–0 | Nicolae Puiu (ROU) W 5–0 | Washington Rodríguez (URU) W 5-0 | Chung Shin-cho (KOR) W RSC | |
| Masataka Takayama | Featherweight | — | Ian McLoughlin (NRH) W 5–0 | Piotr Gutman (POL) L RSC | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Kanemaru Shiratori | Lightweight | BYE | Sammy Amekudji (GHA) W KO | Ronald Allen Harris (USA) L 0-5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hoji Yonekura | Light welterweight | BYE | Miguel Velázquez (ESP) W 3-2 | Félix Betancourt (CUB) L 2-3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Kichijiro Hamada | Welterweight | — | Sayed Mahmoudpour Roudsari (IRN) W 5-0 | Manfredo Alipala (PHI) W 5–0 | Marian Kasprzyk (POL) L 0-5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Koji Masuda | Light middleweight | — | Jannie Gibson (RHO) W RSC | Joseph Gonzales (URS) L 2-3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hitoshi Tenma | Middleweight | — | Juan Aguilar (ARG) L 0-5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Tadayuki Maruyama | Heavyweight | — | — | Athol McQueen (AUS) L 0-5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Canoeing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechages | Repechages | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Shoji Yoshio | C-1 1000 m | 5:05.11 | 4 QS | — | — | 5:00.88 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Shunichi Iwamura Daisaburo Honda | C-2 1000 m | 4:25.86 | 5 QR | — | — | 4:40.54 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hideo Higashiyama | K-1 1000 m | 4:17.47 | 6 QR | 4:42.93 | 1 QS | 4:17.44 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hideo Kobayashi Katsufusa Kashimura | K-2 1000 m | 4:00.94 | 8 QR | 4:03.67 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Izumi Eto Tomio Sumimoto Tadamasa Sato Yuji Umezawa | K-4 1000 m | 3:33.25 | 8 QR | 3:34.68 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Hiroko Oshima Keiko Okamoto | K-2 500 m | 2:14.53 | 5 QS | 2:18.39 | 4 | 2:18.39 | 10 |

## Cycling

15 cyclists represented Japan in 1964.

### Road

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Toshiro Akamatsu | Men's road race | 4:39:51.83 | 106 |
| Masashi Omiya | Men's road race | 4:39:51.76 | 37 |
| Masanori Tsuji | Men's road race | DNF | DNF |
| Hiroshi Yamao | Men's road race | 4:39:51.83 | 105 |
| Takehisa Kato Masashi Omiya Yoshio Shimura Hirotsugu Fukuhara | Team time trial | 2:40:13.27 | 19 |

### Track
#### 1000m time trial

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Katsuhiko Sato | Men's 1000m time trial | 1:11.68 | 10 |

#### Men's tandem

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Repechage Finals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Rank |
| Hideo Madarame Toshimitsu Teshima | Tandem | Bicskey Habony (HUN) L | Morelon Trentin (FRA) Mercado Tellez (MEX) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

#### Men's Sprint

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage 1 | Repechage Finals | Round 2 | Repechage 2 | Repechage Finals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time Speed (km/h) | Rank | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Rank |
| Tsuyoshi Kawachi | Men's sprint | Schillinger (EUA) Fredborg (DEN) L | Gibbon (TRI) Phivana (CAM) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Katsuhiko Sato | Men's sprint | Mercado (MEX) Simes (USA) W 11.92 | BYE | BYE | Fuggerer (EUA) Kučírek (IND) L | Pkhak'adze (URS) Harrison (ITA) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

#### Pursuit

| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time |
| Hiromi Yamafuji | Men's individual pursuit | Martín Rodríguez (COL) W 5:17.57 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Norio Hotogi Fujio Ito Kosaku Takahashi Hiromi Yamafuji | Team pursuit | India (IND) W 4:55.04 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Diving
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Yosuke Arimitsu | 10 m platform | 90.56 | 14 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Shunsuke Kaneto | 3 m springboard | 71.59 | 24 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Shunsuke Kaneto | 10 m platform | 91.31 | 11 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Toshio Otsubo | 10 m platform | 94.32 | 3 Q | 47.73 | 8 | 142.05 | 8 |
| Tadao Tosa | 3 m springboard | 89.10 | 11 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Toshio Yamano | 3 m springboard | 81.74 | 21 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Hatsuko Kawai-Hirose | 10 m platform | 45.00 | 16 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Keiko Osaki | 10 m platform | 45.20 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi | 3 m springboard | 85.27 | 7 Q | 40.01 | 7 | 125.28 | 7 |
| Kumiko Watanabe | 3 m springboard | 84.40 | 9 Q | 35.94 | 9 | 120.34 | 9 |
| Kumiko Watanabe | 10 m platform | 43.50 | 18 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Equestrian
### Dressage

| Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Rank |
| Kikuko Inoue | Katsunobori | Individual | 648.0 | 16 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Okabe Nagahira | Seiha | Individual | 589.5 | 19 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Matsudaira Yorisuke | Hamachidori | Individual | 542.0 | 21 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Inoue Kikuko Okabe Nagahira Matsudaira Yorisuke | See above | Team | — | — | 1779.5 | 6 |

### Eventing

| Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Dressage | Cross country | Show jumping | Penalties | Rank |
| Matsudaira Masaki | Nippo | Individual | 73.33 | EL | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Katsumoto Masanori | Eiten | Individual | 72.00 | EL | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Chiba Mikio | Mauta | Individual | 63.67 | 174.8 | 30.00 | 268.47 | 34 |
| Maeda Rikutoshi | Hogetsu | Individual | 76.00 | EL | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Chiba Mikio Matsudaira Masaki Maeda Rikutoshi | See above | Team | 268.47 | EL | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Show jumping

| Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Hiroshi Hoketsu | Raro | Individual | 63.75 | 41 | 48.00 | 39 | 111.75 | 40 |
| Sasa Shinzo | Snaefell | Individual | 46.75 | 40 | 24.00 | 32 | 70.75 | 38 |
| Kageyama Yuzo | Tokinoarashi | Individual | EL | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hiroshi Hoketsu Sasa Shinzo Kageyama Yuzo | See above | Team | — | — | — | — | 340.00 | 12 |

## 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

## Football
### Group D

The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.

## Qualification

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.
16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:
* Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
* Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
* Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
* Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)
The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:
* Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
* North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.

## Venues

Tokyo :
| Prince Chichibu Football Field (1) | National Olympic Stadium (2) | Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3) |
| Capacity: 17,569 | Capacity: 71,556 | Capacity: 20,780 |
| Saitama | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |
| Ōmiya Football Field (4) | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |
| Capacity: 14,392 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |
| Yokohama | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |
| Mitsuzawa Football Field (5) | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |
| Capacity: 10,102 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 | 45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5 |

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Hungary | Czechoslovakia | United Team of Germany |
| Ferenc Bene Tibor Csernai János Farkas József Gelei Kálmán Ihász Sándor Katona Imre Komora Ferenc Nógrádi Dezső Novák Árpád Orbán Károly Palotai Antal Szentmihályi Gusztáv Szepesi Zoltán Varga | Jan Brumovský Ludovít Cvetler Ján Geleta František Knebort Karel Knesl Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Štefan Matlák Ivan Mráz Karel Nepomucký Zdeněk Pičman František Schmucker Anton Švajlen Anton Urban František Valošek Josef Vojta Vladimír Weiss | Gerd Backhaus Wolfgang Barthels Bernd Bauchspieß Gerhard Körner Otto Fräßdorf Henning Frenzel Dieter Engelhardt Herbert Pankau Manfred Geisler Jürgen Heinsch Klaus Lisiewicz Jürgen Nöldner Peter Rock Klaus-Dieter Seehaus Hermann Stöcker Werner Unger Klaus Urbanczyk Eberhard Vogel Manfred Walter Horst Weigang |
Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

## First round
### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United Team of Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 | Romania | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 3 | Mexico | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 1 | |
| 4 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Hungary | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 4 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 | Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 2 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 3 | Morocco | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 | |
| 4 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 6 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 | United Arab Republic | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 3 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 3 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | −19 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Ghana | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 3 | Argentina | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 1 | |
| 4 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 18 October – Yokohama | 18 October – Yokohama | | | |
| Romania | 0 | | | |
| Romania | 0 | 20 October – Tokyo (CRS) | 20 October – Tokyo (CRS) | | |
| Hungary | 2 | 20 October – Tokyo (CRS) | 20 October – Tokyo (CRS) | |
| Hungary | 2 | Hungary | 6 | |
| 18 October – Saitama | 18 October – Saitama | | Hungary | 6 | |
| 18 October – Saitama | 18 October – Saitama | United Arab Republic | 0 | |
| United Arab Republic | 5 | United Arab Republic | 0 | |
| United Arab Republic | 5 | | | | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) |
| Ghana | 1 | | | | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) |
| Ghana | 1 | | | | Hungary | 2 |
| 18 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | 18 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | | | | | Hungary | 2 |
| 18 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | 18 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 4 | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 4 | 20 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | 20 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | | | |
| Japan | 0 | 20 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | 20 October – Tokyo (KOPS) | | | |
| Japan | 0 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| 18 October – Tokyo (CRS) | 18 October – Tokyo (CRS) | | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| 18 October – Tokyo (CRS) | 18 October – Tokyo (CRS) | United Team of Germany | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | United Team of Germany | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | | | | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) |
| United Team of Germany | 1 | | | | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) | 23 October – Tokyo (NS) |
| United Team of Germany | 1 | | | | United Team of Germany | 3 |
| | | | | | United Arab Republic | 1 |

### Gold medal match
## Goalscorers

With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

### 12 goals

* Ferenc Bene

### 8 goals

* Moustafa Reyadh

### 6 goals

* Tibor Csernai
* Cornel Pavlovici

### 5 goals

* Ivan Mráz
* Slaven Zambata

### 4 goals

* Josef Vojta
* Henning Frenzel
* Rudolf Belin
* Ivica Osim

### 3 goals

* Jan Brumovský
* Eberhard Vogel
* Hamoud Fulaiteh
* Rifaat El-Fanagily

### 2 goals

* Juan Carlos Domínguez
* Elizeu
* Roberto Miranda
* Karel Lichtnégl
* Vojtech Masný
* Jürgen Nöldner
* Imre Komora
* Ryūichi Sugiyama
* Carol Creiniceanu
* Ion Pârcălab
* Badawi Abdel Fattah

### 1 goal

* Carlos Alberto Bulla
* Zé Roberto
* Anton Urban
* František Valošek
* Ľudovít Cvetler
* Bernd Bauchspieß
* Hermann Stöcker
* Wolfgang Barthels
* Edward Acquah
* Gyau Agyemang
* Sam Acquah
* Wilberforce Mfum
* János Farkas
* Karam Ali Nirlou
* Aritatsu Ogi
* Kunishige Kamamoto
* Saburō Kawabuchi
* Shigeo Yaegashi
* Javier Fragoso
* José Luis González Dávila
* Ali Bouachra
* Ion Ionescu
* Gheorghe Constantin
* Lee Yi-Woo
* Aly Etman
* Kalil Shanin
* Mahmoud Hassan
* Raafat Attia
* Seddik Mohamed
* Spasoje Samardžić

### Own goal

* Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Hungary | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 6 | +16 | 10 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 5 | +14 | 10 |
| 3 | United Team of Germany | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 9 |
| 4 | United Arab Republic | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 16 | +2 | 5 |
| 5 | Romania | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 9 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 4 |
| 7 | Ghana | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 3 |
| 8 | Japan | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 15 | −9 | 2 |
| 9 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 |
| 10 | Argentina | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 1 |
| 11 | Mexico | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 1 |
| 12 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 |
| 13 | Morocco | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 |
| 14 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | −19 | 0 |