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He could travel to Baltimore for a bridge tournament.
Did Nintendo make poker decks back then? They started out making cards for traditional Japanese card games like hanafuda because Western card games had limited presence in Japan.
So this just presents the question of why someone is playing a bridge tournament in Baltimore using what would be to them weird cards they've never seen anything like before made by some Orientals.
Bridge being the modern version of Russian Whist, where Whist would have been a better fit, being of the right era and eastern european origin.
And Nintendo was simply producing cards so the Japanese diplomats might better understand their Russian counterparts by understanding their passtimes in an attempt to diffuse rising tensions before they lead to war...
But alas no barge knocked down a whist anywhere recently.