Toyohiro Tanaka

Toyo Tanaka is the founder of the AJA of SA, and its first Life Member. Known to his friends as Toyo, he was a research student in Adelaide in 1967, and saw the need to build better relationships between Australia and Japan. With others who felt the same way, some with Japanese wives, he did something about it and 54years of the AJA is the direct result. The AJA was very proud and pleased that Toyo could be present from Japan at the 40th Anniversary Dinner held on August 15th 2007, an occasion which was in large part a tribute to his vision and determination to make Australia and Japan friends. For this occasion he wrote as follows: