First flight in Japan

Shibuya ku Yoyogi Kamizono cho.
  • This is the Yoyogi park.
  • Do you know this monument?
  • I can't read it.
  • Please read to the left from the right.
  • The plane flies for the first time in Japan.
  • Here is the place.
  • When is it?
  • December 19, 1910.
  • Who did fly an airplane for the first time in the world?
  • The Wright brothers in America.
  • It is in 1903.
  • Everyone knows that.
  • Do you know Chuhachi Ninomiya?
  • Who?
  • He thought about an airplane in 1889.
  • It is earlier than the Wright brothers.
  • He has not yet spurted.
  • Mr.Ninomiya achieved to flew unmanned plane to 36 meters in 1891.
  • He wanted to develop an engine.
  • But he didn't have an expense.
  • Money's what it's all about.
  • The Wright brothers succeeded in 1903.
  • The human flew in the sky at last.
  • In 1910.
  • Kumazou Hino was dispatched in Germany.
  • Is he a military man?
  • Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was dispatched in France.
  • Two countries?
  • Two people became a pilot.
  • And, took airplane back.
  • Made in Germany and France.
  • December 19, 1910.
  • They tried to fly airplane here.
  • How are the outcomes?
  • Airplane made in France flew
  • to 3,000 meters in four minutes.
  • Good job.
  • Airplane made in Germany flew
  • to 1,000 meters in one minute.
  • Which one is better?
  • Made in France.
  • This story is over.
  • Okey, Next is a story about a famous meeting place at Shibuya Station.