Shonen Kurabu Furoku Orimpiku Nekkyo Yugiban

This is an unusual Japanese game published in 1936 and themed on that year's Olympic Games in Berlin. It is a game of maneouver for 4 players representing Japan, the United States, Great Britain and France. It is played on a circular board, with spaces dividing a series of concentric rings. The innermost ring features four symbols for four other coutries: Germany, Norway, Finland and Canada. Each player has four tokens, and must try to move them across the board to an objective space immediately behind the starting spaces of the player opposite. The back of the game sheet features head-and-shoulders photographs of 51 members of the Japanese Olympic team. —user summary