The birth of the Rotary Club of Tokyo
Oct. 1920
Birth of the Tokyo Rotary Club, Oct.1920 In Jan. 1918, Umekichi Yoneyama visited the U.S. as a member of a Japanese financial delegation. In Dallas he was introduced to Rotary by a member of the Dallas Rotary Club, Kisaji Fukushima.
Upon return to Japan in 1920, Yoneyama Organized the first Japanese Rotary Club with himself as President and Fukushima as Club Secretary, and applied for a charter to the International Assoiation of Rotary Club which was granted in April the following year.