About Kiwanis Club of Sendai

“Delightful, enjoyable and beneficial” the slogan for action for the Kiwanis Club of Sendai:

2023-24 Club Officers

Kenji OHYAMA, President
Junichi MATSUDA, Vice President, President-elect
Koichi ABE, Vice President
Fumihiro KIKUCHI, Immediate Past President
Shigenori TAKAHASHI, Secretary
Takehiko SUZUKI, Director, Service Committee Chair
Michio YAMATA, Director, Recreation Committee Chair
Naoki HATA, Director, Meeting Committee Chair
Kousei TAKAHASHI, Director, Membership Committee Chair
Toshinori ARAKI, Director, Public Relations and Youth Committee Chair
Mitsuhiro SAKURABA, Auditor
Rumi ENDO, Auditor

Message of President Fumihiro KIKUCHI

President Kenji Ohyama
As a successor to Fumihiro KIKUCHI, I became President of the Kiwanis Club of Sendai, Inc. for the period from October 2024 till September 2025.
Under the slogan "Delightful, Enjoyable and Beneficial", the Kiwanis Club of Sendai has been putting special emphasis on "service activities for children", such as support for children devastated by the Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, making and donation of Kiwanis dolls, presentation of the "Kiwanis Club of Sendai Community Service Award", grants for sound development of youth, and fund-raising and contributions to the Kiwanis Children's Fund.
Many children lost their lives, were hurt, or lost their parents by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
The Kiwanis Club of Sendai received donations from inside Japan and from all over the world for these children. To make effective use of these generous donations, we have established the "Kiwanis Club of Sendai, Children's Fund" to provide medium and long term support for these stricken children. The mission was accomplished in 2018.
On the other hand, Kiwanis launched with UNICEF the Eliminate Project based on its previous accomplishment with UNICEF of virtually eradicating Iodine Deficiency Disorders. The Eliminate Project intends to eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus from the world. The Kiwanis Club of Sendai actively supports this project, had pledged to be a "model club" and fulfilled the pledge in December, 2015 for the Eliminate Project as a token of gratitude for the generous donations from all over the world for children devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Our club was incorporated on October 30, 2017, and became “Kiwanis Club of Sendai, Inc.” We hope to continue our service activities for children.
In December, 2017, we sponsored and opened the Circle K Miyagi Gakuin Women's University as a part of Kiwanis International's Service Leadership Programs (SLP) aiming at bringing up the leaders in the next generation through service activities. The members of the club have since been planning and carrying out service activities of their own.
My philosophy is "do not depend on others, take care of others, and don't ask for reward!" I would like to carry out this year's activity under this philosophy. We would like to ask for your understanding as well as cooperation, and invite you to join us in expanding Kiwanis services for children.

Club meetings

The second and fourth Mondays from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm

Club meeting Venue

Sendai Kokusai Hotel (6-1 Chuo 4-chome, Aoba-ku, Sendai; phone 022-268-1111)

Club office

Kiwanis Club of Sendai, Inc.
3F, Tohoku Chushin Building, 2-39 Kitame-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0023, Japan
phone: +81-22-398-4529
fax: +81-22-398-4939
e-mail: sendai.kiwanis@watch.ocn.ne.jp

The History of the Kiwanis Club of Sendai

The Kiwanis Club of Sendai was established on June 23, 1971 as the sixth club in Japan. It had been planning a project commemorating its 40th Anniversary in 2011. Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, however, it changed the plan and established “Kiwanis Club of Sendai, Children’s Fund” for the children who experienced extreme hardships caused by the earthquake and tsunami.
(Some of the photos are magnified when clicked.)

Inaugural meeting on June 23, 1971

Charter Ceremony and Banquet on September 21,1971

International President-Designate Wes H. Bartlett, The first Club President Shun IKEUCHI