In Photos: Historic moments of the Olympic Games -- Tokyo 1964

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The Japanese delegation marches under blue skies during the opening ceremony on Oct. 10. It was first time for Japan to host a summer or winter games. Japan won 16 gold medals, tying the record for the country. A total of 93 nations and regions participated in the global event.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The Japanese delegation marches during the opening ceremony. The team consisted of 437 athletes and staff members.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The Japanese delegation marches during the opening ceremony. Their red blazers and white pants look stylish.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Emperor Hirohito, third from left in the front row, and Empress Nagako watch delegations from countries around the world march during the opening ceremony.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The torch relay arrives at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Yoshinori Sakai, anchor for the torch relay, runs up the stairs to the cauldron. The 19-year-old was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Yoshinori Sakai, anchor for the torch relay, runs up the stairs to the cauldron while spectators applaud him.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The cauldron is ignited for the first time in Asia.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The Blue Impulse acrobatic team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force form five colored smoke rings, each measuring 1,800 meters in diameter, over the stadium at an altitude of 3,000 meters at the end of the opening ceremony. They had never previously successfully created the rings but managed to achieve the feat on the day.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- The Japanese women's volleyball team captured the gold medal after winning all five of its games against the Soviet Union, Poland and other powerful competitors. The Japanese women dominated the sport after improving their tenacious defense under the instruction of Hirobumi Daimatsu, head coach of the team. The dominant team was labeled "the Oriental Witches" by the foreign press.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Members of the Japanese women's volleyball team celebrate winning the gold medal by tossing head coach Hirobumi Daimatsu in the air following the medal ceremony after they won the event by defeating the Soviet Union.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Japan's Yoshinobu Miyake won the gold medal in the featherweight division in men's weightlifting, the first for Japan at the games.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Abebe Bikila, of Ethiopia, leaves all the other runners in his wake near the south gate of Shinjuku Station in the men's marathon. He won the gold medal with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes, 11 seconds.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Japan's Kokichi Tsuburaya lies in second place outside the National Stadium, the finishing area of the men's marathon, before he was passed by Britain's Basil Heatley after entering the stadium and was left to take the bronze medal.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Japan's Haruhiro Yamashita won the gold medal in the vault in the men's gymnastics. He successfully performed a new difficult technique that was named after his family name.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Japan's Haruhiro Yamashita performs a new difficult technique that was named after his family name, in the vault in the men's gymnastics. The Japanese men's gymnastics team won the team gold medal. Japan also won four gold and four silver medals in individual events in the men's gymnastics.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Yukio Endo, of Japan, performs on the parallel bars in the men's gymnastics. He won the gold medal in the team event following his success in the 1960 Rome Olympics.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Yukio Endo, of Japan, left, won the gold medal in the all-around individual event in the men's gymnastics. Shuji Tsurumi took the silver medal in the same competition.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Vera Caslavska, of Czechoslovakia, won the gold medal in the balance beam, the vault and the all-around individual event in the women's gymnastics.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Kiyoko Ono, of Japan, performs on the balance beam in the women's gymnastics. She won the bronze medal in the team event. After retiring from the sport, she served three terms as a member of the House of Councillors.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Yojiro Uetake, of Japan, won the gold medal in the bantamweight class in freestyle wrestling. He defeated a competitor from the Soviet Union in the final.

1964 Tokyo Olympics -- Tsutomu Hanahara, of Japan, competes in the flyweight class, and Masamitsu Ichiguchi, of Japan, in the bantamweight class, in Greco-Roman wrestling. Both won gold medals.