---
title: "Vegetarian Societies in Asia - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Vegetarian Societies in Asia: The dates below are when the Society was formed, where known. If the date of formation is not known then it is the date they joined IVU."
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2676-history-societies-asia.html"
date: "2026-11-06T00:16:03+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Vegetarian Societies in Asia

![Vegetarian Societies in Asia](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-societies-asia.png)The dates below are when the Society was formed, where known. If the date of formation is not known then it is the date they joined IVU. The links go to historical details about each society.

- 1960 - Ceylon Vegetarian Society
- 1960 - Israel Vegetarian & Hygienist Union
- 1960 - Malayan Vegetarian Society
- 1960 - Mandalay Vegetarian Society
- 1960 - Israel Vegetarian Society
- 1982 - Sri Lanka Vegetarian Society
- 1993 - Japan Vegetarian Society
- 1995 - The Vegetarian Centre of Thailand
- 1998 - Keluarga Vegetarian Maitreya, Indonesia
- 1998 - Silver Dove Club, Thailand
- 1999 - Vegetarian Society Singapore
- 1999 - Hong Kong Vegan Society
- 1999 - Thai Vegetarian Union
- 2001 - Vegetarians of Mongolia
- 2003 - International Jewish Vegetarian Society

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A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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