Events
- 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.
- 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.
- September 17: The Tokyo Monorail begins operations.
- October 1: The Tōkaidō Shinkansen begins operations.
- October 10–24: 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo.
- 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.
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