The 1964 Olympics were held in Tokyo and marked the first time a non-Western nation had hosted the Games.
The city had been due to stage the 1940 Games but Japan invaded China and the International Olympic Committee took them away, before the intervention of World War II put pay to any Games that year.
There was a poignant opening when 19-year-old Yoshinori Sakai, who was born near Hiroshima on 6 August, 1945, the date the atomic bomb was dropped on the city, lit the Olympic Flame.
He symbolised the new post-war Japan of reconstruction and peace.
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