www.asiahistory.org

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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

Also, see our regional history section

Clubs with the logo, shown 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
CALCUTTA	MANILA	OSAKA	SHANGHAI		TOKYO
FRIENDSHIP TREES	RI ARCHIVES	HISTORY CALENDAR	JIM DAVIDSON		DISTRICTS
Florence Hui, Macau, Chair - Malaysia, Webmaster			GET UPDATES		WHAT'S NEW?	COMMITTEE

#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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