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Tanaka, a businessman from the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, shared how becoming a Rotarian broadened his understanding of the world.
Sakuji Tanaka was the President of Rotary International....
'What is your dream?' asks visiting Rotary International leader
"What is your dream?" Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka asks young people wherever his extensive worldwide travels take him.
And, regardless of the honest answer from this young person or that young person, Tanaka always responds: "That is truly wonderful."
A member of the Rotary Club of Yashio since its charter in , Tanaka has put "service above self" — a primary RI motto — in a variety of ways ranging from serving as a member of the Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Force and Future Vision Committee to working with his own Rotary district to help construct a school building in Bangladesh.
As Rotary International president-elect last year, Tanaka announced his theme for this Rotary year would be "Peace Through Service" and stated RI would sponsor three international peace forums in Berlin, Honolulu and Hiroshima.
Jack Bailey, past president of the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge and current district governor of