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Eight years after crossing the Atlantic Rotary reached across the Pacific.  This section of The "History" Website is dedicated to the first 10 Asian clubs, with additional Asia Region clubs listed at "Spirit of 30,000" under "Asia Region"

Also, see our regional history section

Clubs with the logo on the left were on the list of Paul and Jean Harris' world-wide good will trips where they planted "Friendship Trees."
ROTARY GLOBAL HISTORY SECTION HOME First Rotary Clubs of Asia HISTORY OUTLINE ASIA HISTORY
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#01 MANILA PHILIPPINES #478  1JUNE1919 D3810  ZONE07  Club History

 

#02 SHANGHAI (provisional) CHINA #545  1OOCT1919 D3450 ZONE04  Club History

Rotary Club of Shanghai (provisional)

Rotary Returns to China in 2001

The History of China & D3450

#03 CALCUTTA INDIA #587  1SEPT1920  D3290  ZONE05  Club History


ROTARY CLUB OF CALCUTTA
Asia's Longest Running Club

#04  Tokyo, Japan #855 1OCT1920 D2580  ZONE02  Club History

#05 Osaka, Japan #1349 1NOV1922 D2660  ZONE03  HISTORY

Site of the

2004 International Convention

#06 Teinstsin, China  #1444 1FEB1923 D  ZONE  HISTORY no longer exists

#07 Peiping, China #1814 1JUNE1924 D  ZONE  HISTORY

 

no longer exists

 #08 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan #1907 1DEC1924 D2760  ZONE  HISTORY
#09 Kobe, Hyogo, Japan #1986 1AUG1924 D2680  ZONE03  HISTORY #10 Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan #2184 1OCT1925 D2650  ZONE  HISTORY

 

A brief History of Rotary in Japan  

by PDG Takao Sugitani

Also read the article by Wen Huang, "The Long Road Back to China"

Learn about the founder of Rotary - in much of Asia,

Jim Davidson

See Asia Archives for the First 38 Clubs 1919 - 1930

A section on Rotary in Japan

Need for Cultural Leadership Along the Silk Road
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