The Convention of AOTS Alumni Societies

AOTS organizes the Convention of the AOTS Alumni Societies by inviting Representatives of the AOTS Alumni Societies to gather once every four years in principle. The objectives of the Convention are to facilitate cooperation among the AOTS Alumni Societies and to promote the AOTS activities according to the actual situation of developing countries by obtaining information on evaluation of AOTS activities and local training needs of developing countries through the exchanges of opinions between AOTS and AOTS Alumni Societies.


Participation Figures for the Convention

No. Year Place No. of countries and Societies No. of delegates
1st 1986 Tokyo,
Japan 		28 Societies
from 20 countries		 33
2nd 1989 Yokohama,
Japan 		43 Societies
from 25 countries		 103
3rd 1992 Bangkok,
Thailand 		51 Societies
from 31 countries		 132
4th 1994 Osaka,
Japan 		53 Societies
from 33 countries		 171
5th 1997 Aichi,
Japan 		64 Societies
from 40 countries		 205
6th 2002 Colombo,
Sri Lanka 		61 Societies
from 37 countries		 136
7th
(PDF:1.48MB)		 2006 Mumbai,
India 		62 Societies
from 40 countries		 170
8th 2009 Yokohama,
Japan 		68 Societies
from 41 countries		 211