1964 in Japan

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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Hayato Ikeda (L–Hiroshima, 3rd term) until November 9, Eisaku Satō (L–Yamaguchi)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasumi Kurogane (L–Yamagata) until July 18, Zenkō Suzuki (L–Iwate) until November 9, Tomisaburō Hashimoto (L–Ibaraki)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburō Yokota
President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada (L–Tochigi)
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune (L–national)
Diet sessions: 46th (regular session opened in December 1963, to June 26), 47th (extraordinary, November 9 to December 18), 48th (regular, December 21 to 1965, June 1)

Parking lot in Japan circa 1964

March 18: Hayakawa Electric (the predecessor of today's Sharp) and Sony announce that they have completed a prototype electronic calculator using Japanese-manufactured diodes and transistors.
March 24: U.S. ambassador Edwin Reischauer is stabbed by a Japanese youth.
April 1: Japanese citizens are permitted to freely travel overseas.
April 12: Channel 12, the predecessor of TV Tokyo, begins operations.
April 29 - The Keiō Dōbutsuen Line opens.
June 16: An earthquake in Niigata Prefecture kills 12.
July 18: A heavy massible rain, following devastate flood and landslide in Shimane and Tottori Prefecture, at least 128 people lives.
August 18 – The International Olympic Committee bans South Africa from the Tokyo Olympics on the grounds that its teams are racially segregated.
September 17: The Tokyo Monorail begins operations.
October 1: The Tōkaidō Shinkansen begins operations.
October 10–24: 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo. Judo introduced for the first time as an Olympic Game.
October 25: Ikeda Hayato resigns as prime minister; Eisaku Sato is elected to replace him.
November 9: Sato announces his first cabinet.
November 17: The political party Komeito is formed.
December 23: Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line was opened.

January 1: Akemi Masuda, athlete
January 25: Seiko Senou, actor of 1987 Metal Hero Series Choujinki Metalder.
March 8: Hiroshi Tsuburaya, actor of 1984 Space Sheriff Series Uchuu Keiji Shaider (died 2001).
March 18: Mika Kanai, voice actress and singer
March 18: Yoko Kanno, pianist and songwriter
April 23: Rie Ishizuka, voice actress
May 5: Minami Takayama, singer and voice actress
May 22: Daisuke Shima, actor of 1988 Super Sentai Series of Last Showa Series of Choujuu Sentai Liveman as Red Falcon/Yuusuke Amamiya as OP and ED Himself Performing.
May 31: Yukio Edano, politician
June 22: Hiroshi Abe, model and actor
July 9: Kazumi Kawai, actress (died 1997)
July 19: Masahiko Kondō, solo singer of Johnny & Associates
July 24: Banana Yoshimoto, author
July 25: Reiko Takashima, actress
August 10: Hiro Takahashi, singer, lyricist, and composer (died 2005)
September 13: Junko Mihara, politician, former singer, and actress
September 23: Koshi Inaba, singer of B'z
October 5: Seiko Hashimoto, ice speed skater
October 12: Masaru Ogawa, figure skater
October 15: Megumi Yokota, one of the North Korean abductee victims of the late 1970s
October 18: Etsuko Inoue, tennis player
October 28: Kotaro Tanaka, actor of 1991 Super Sentai Chōjin Sentai Jetman as Red Hawk/Ryu Tendou.
November 4: Yūko Mizutani, voice actress
December 13: hide, musician (died 1998)
December 23: Kazuhiro Koshi, skeleton racer
December 28: Kaori Yamaguchi, judoka

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1964 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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