An unknown Japanese visitor saw a game involving a parachute at a YMCA in the United States in October 1960 and also in Los Angeles and was attracted to it. In the hope that children could play the game he returned to Japan and searched unsuccessfully for a similar style of parachute.
A foreign visitor from Japan encountered a parachute game at a YMCA in the U.S. in October 1960, which piqued his interest. He hoped that kids could play something similar and traveled back to Japan to search for it, but was unsuccessful.