On July 2, 1966, the Beatles played the fourth and fifth of their five Nippon Budokan concerts in Tokyo -- a 2:00 PM matinee and a 6:30 PM evening show, their last performances in Japan. They were the first rock band ever to play the Budokan, a hall built for the 1964 Olympics and reserved for martial arts, and the booking provoked genuine nationalist protest, death threats, and a security operation of some three thousand police, with the audience penned into the upper tiers. The band played the same eleven songs each show, closing on "I'm Down." Within weeks the touring life that had defined them would end for good.