1930 Worldwide Flight Path Map | Sugoroku Game
This is a New Year's day Sugoroku game from Osaka Mainichi. It was published January 1st 1930. This map is centered on Japan and rather involved with flight paths that cross the globe. and is surrounded by 52 pictures of a wide variety of historical sites, animals, and people that can be found around the world. Japanese text surrounding the map mostly pertains to the rules for playing along the flight paths that the map depicts. There is a set of modifications that the player can try when playing the game. The game and the map is designed to try to get children to think big thoughts about the future of air travel and the final "homework" in the lower left hand corner encourages children to send their big ideas about the future of air travel into the newspaper. In the upper left hand corner is a section containing recent flight records from Japan and around the world. Listed first are Japanese records, international ones are listed second. There is a record for speed, endurance, distanc