NEWS
Kitakyushu
International
Techno-cooperative
Association

No.9
2009
OctoberContents
1 The ceremony for the friendship and cooperation agreementwith Haiphong City, Vietnam
2 A Message from President of KITA
3 Close-up of some KITA training courses
Industrial consideration on Cleaner Production (CP)The useful technology for promoting Low Carbon Society
Argentina, Latin America, Malaysia, other countries
7 Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Russia, China
10 Informative news and topics
11 KITA international training courses in FY 2009
12 Other two topics and information

The ceremony for the friendship and cooperation agreement with Haiphong City, Vietnam
The signing ceremony for the friendship and cooperation agreement between Mayer of Kitakyushu City and Chairman of the
Haiphong People's Committee took place on April 17, 2009 in Haiphong where KITA staff attended .
KITA has been conducting the environmental cooperation in Haiphong City, for example the support of making pollution
control plans based on the idea of cleaner production for the small- and medium-sized companies, and the environmental
education for local residents. (See Page7 for more details.)

A Message from President of KITAK ITA Pushes Forwardwith Cleaner Production (CP)Dr. Takuo Kohno
KITA has greeted its 29th anniversary this year.
Looking back, KITA's activities began with providing
training in steel production, Kitakyushu's specialty, and its
training fields expanded with time to include
environmental
conservation
andimprovement
technologies to facilitate sustainable development invarious industries, and resource- and energy-saving
subsequently as productivity increased. Now, all these
aspects are integrated in a comprehensive manner as
Cleaner Production (CP) providing the core of ourtechnological cooperation in the form of international
training and overseas projects.
As of the end of March 2009, KITA has received 5,366
participants from 133 countries, which expresses indeed"Rome was not built in a day" and encourages us greatly
as well. KITA's recent overseas projects and efforts are as
follows. Technological cooperation with Russia including
waste treatment, dissemination of waste treatment
technology in Indonesia, a friendship city agreement
through cooperation for environmental improvement with
Haiphong City, Vietnam and environmental cooperation

including recycling and energy-saving in China. On June
10, the Minister of Environment in Japan granted KITA an
Achievement Award recognizing the organization's many
years of contribution to international environmental
cooperation.
Balancing economic development and environmental
sustainability is now a critical global issue. President
Obama of the US advocates Green New Deal and it isreported that the G8 leaders in L'Aquila, Italy, agreed tounite to promote Green Recovery.
Kitakyushu City has an over a century-long history ofindustrial development and experience overcoming
industrial pollution along the way. Last year, the city wascertified by the government of Japan as one of its
Environmental Model Cities. KITA has a significant role toplay as we promote CP in industries through energysaving and productivity improvement. Taking advantage
of Kitakyushu's rich experience, we do our very best to
provide training and consulting to stimulate lowcarbonization in Asia and elsewhere. I am looking forward
to any comments and requests from overseas.

Skill up Seminar on International Training
On Aug. 5, 2009, KITA invited Dr. Ryokichi Hirono, a
professor emeritus at Seikei University and a consultant of
KITA, to conduct a seminar for the people involved in theinternational cooperation to deepen their understanding.
By using the latest data, he explained clearly about how
to promote sustainable development through cleaner
production and cool earth partnership programs, and had alively discussion with the audience. We would like tocontinue our efforts to broaden our understanding and todevelop human resources for the international cooperation.

Yoshitaka Murakami
KITA Environmental Cooperation Center

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Seminar on International Training

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Close-up of some KITA training courses
Industrial consideration on Cleaner Production (CP)Agenda 21, which was adopted in Earth Summit in
1992, advocated the promotion of CP. United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) is engaged in thedissemination of the CP concept.
Human being is confronting the three issues,"environmental issues (domestic pollution, global
environmental problems)", "depletion of natural
resources", and "rapid increase of world population". CP
is believed to be the promising approach to promotesustainable development by alleviating the issues.
CP is not a special technology, but the concept ofmanagement. Japanese companies have implemented
the various activities in the past to streamline production
processes and reduce environmental load. In past andpresent, Japanese companies are making efforts to
reduce production cost and environmental loads throughvarious activities shown in the Figure. Among them, total
productive maintenance (TPM) and ISO 14,000 are typicalexamples. By utilizing the various technologies, the goal(summit) is achieved.
Actually, the steel industry in Kitakyushu City
dramatically reduced the SOx emission from 27,575
tons/year in 1970 to 607 tons/year in 1990. The idea
corresponding CP such as "saving energy", "fuelconversion", and "recovery of exhaust heat" was the main
countermeasures for SOx reduction. The percentage
contribution of CP was 75% and that of End of Pipe (EOP)
was only 25%.
CP is the concept, in other words, the target to attain.
There are many routes of climb to achieve CP. There isno distinctive CP technology.

Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto
Director-General,
KITA Productivity Cooperation Center

CP

Concept of Cleaner Production (CP)Trilemma, human being is confronting

The useful technology for promoting Low Carbon Society in Asian countries
Promotion of Low Carbon Society in Asian
countries is expected by transfer technologies from
Kitakyushu City as the activity of Environmental
Model City. Referring to promotion of Low Carbon
Society, the concept of CP can be applied as
mentioned above article. Therefore, not only energy
saving and conversion technology but also
productivity, quality, yield improvement andproduction management should be taken into
account.
The enterprises in Kitakyushu have accumulated

lot of such technologies in various industrial field,
from which Best Available Technology can be
introduced to each country.
The expert team from Kitakyushu would like to visit
several Asian countries to discuss the mostappropriate way as Asian Standard for promoting
Low Carbon Society supported by City Government.

Nobuyoshi Tanaka
Technical Advisor of KITA

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News&ReportCompletion of the Cleaner Production (CP) Course for the Iron andSteel Industries in Argentina
The course was run for the first time this fiscal year to
support the implementation and dissemination of CP in
the iron and steel industries in Argentina.
Training is only effective if the relevant information isprovided in an easily accessible form and if appropriate
follow-up support is available after the training. With thatin mind, before the course started we took the following
actions.
① The JICA/KITA officials visited Argentina lastNovember to hold detailed meetings with members of
the relevant organizations.
②Two executives, including the CEO of the Iron andSteel Institute of Argentina (ISIA), came to Japan in
April to get some sense of the established training
program and to modify some contents. The
executives expressed a desire to recycle thebyproducts as one of the concrete accomplishmentsof CP. As a result, we put more emphasis on this
topic in the lecture materials and site visits.
③ The lecture will be translated into Spanish, theirmother tongue as well as the text written in Spanish
was prepared for their better understanding.
A total of four participants from ISIA and the iron andsteel business community came to Japan in June toattend the two month course. "I had not expected that we
could learn this much, so I am very satisfied with thetraining" commented one of the participants.
Our plan for the future is for the course leader andassistant course leader to go to Argentina to support theparticipants by being field supervisors for byproductrecycling and the dissemination of CP.
Dr. Masakatsu Ueno
Course Leader of KITA
Susumu Kubo
Assistant Course
Leader of KITA

Trainees from Argentina observing
continuous heating furnace
at Fukunetsu Co., Ltd.

A Field Study in Chile and the Dominican Republic for preparing"Productivity Improvement Activity (PIA)" course
The course "Dissemination of PIA in the Latin-Americancountries (in conjunction with volunteer activities)" will becreated for this fiscal year. In order to develop the course
content, 3 JICA officials and I visited both Chile and theDominican Republic as example of the industrializing
countries, at the end of this June to look at PIA status inthese countries.
In the business community in Chile, the key word is"KAIZEN". PIA in Chile's leading industries of metal andmetal-processing is at the mutual cooperation stage. For
example, company groups already advanced in PIA aretraining the next stage of company groups in PIA andsuccess stories are published on the Internet. Furthermore,national-level PIA, too, is thriving and there is an awards
system for quality control at small- and medium-sizedcompanies.
The Dominican Republic is trying to move forward fromdomestic light industries, and attracting overseas
corporations by applying a preferential taxation system, forexample. However, management of productivity, such as
quality, delivery deadlines and costs, is often inadequate indomestic companies, resulting in final products with notsatisfied. There are some difficulty in business with

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overseas corporations. Therefore, the key word in thebusiness community is "5S* ", currently emphasizing SEIRI,SEITON and SHITSUKE. Which are first stage of PIA.
After the field study we decided to organize two courses:
one focused on the improvement of PIA from division-based
to corporation- and trans-corporation-based for preceding
nations such as Chile, and the other focused onunderstanding the aims and significance of PIA for latestarters.
*5S : SEIRI (Clearing), SEITON (Organizing), SEISO(Cleaning),
SEIKETSU (Standardizing), SHITSUKE(Training & Discipline)

Tadashi Miyamoto
Course Leader of KITA
Katsuhiko Kawasaki
Course Leader of KITA

The factory's slogan is "SEIRI"
at this cigar factoryin the Dominican Republic.

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Vocational Training Institutes in Malaysia Begin Taking Their 5S* Actions!
Participants Sent to KITA for Training
KITA received 10 representatives of Vocational Training
Institutes (VTIs) in Malaysia for one month's training,
beginning the middle of February, to help them carry out
their 5S* activities and set up similar training course in
Malaysia.
Last year Malaysia's Manpower Department instructed
the VTIs, which are affiliated organizations, to prepare
and launch a focused training course on 5S, with JICA's
assistance. In response, Mr. Inagaki of JICA and I visited
Malaysia last December to investigate some background,including the Manpower Department's objectives (such as
sending capable individuals to small - and medium-sizedenterprises, which command a majority, to strengthen
their competitiveness), the current status of the VTIs, andthe needs of the local businesses (which wanted to
employ VTIs' graduates of 5S training).
The KITA training reflected all these targets andprovided training on IE and QC as well as on 5S to help intheir future work as enterprise on-site supervisors andprovided opportunities to visit 4 Japanese small- andmedium-sized enterprises to help them understand 5S inpractice. During the training they created a three-year
action plan for 5S implementation at their respective VTIs.
We look forward to learning about the execution of theirplans and future success.
*5S : SEIRI (Clearing), SEITON (Organizing), SEISO(Cleaning),
SEIKETSU (Standardizing), SHITSUKE(Training & Discipline)

Shunji Rikimaru
Course Leader of KITA

A visit for a lecture atNakashima Turret Co., Ltd.
which has 10 years of 5S experience

The last day of the IE lectures
at JICA Kyushu

Starting a new course, "Training Course for Competitive Advantage ofMalaysian Automotive Parts Industry"
Accepting 15 middle-management class participantsfrom Malaysian auto parts manufacturing companies, thecaptioned course had been conducted by KITA fromFebruary 2 to March 14. The background behind this wasfrom the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
between Japan and Malaysia signed in 2006, regarding
export transactions of Japanese automobiles. Instead of
Malaysia’s eliminating tariffs, Japan owed a charge toproceed with 10 assisting projects to their relating
industries. The captioned course is one of these projects
and started last year (FY2007) at a different organization,
Chu-San-Ren, located in Aichi Prefecture, but held in both
Kitakyushu and Aichi this year (FY2008).
The course program covered ① lectures and exercises
relating to improve productivity, ② learning through theactual sites of various enterprises and ③ supporting theindividuals to program their own action plans. It can benoted that all participants had been tackling very much
lively and diligently throughout the course and showed
their strong interests in TPS (Toyota Production System),
5S, TPM and VE, as well as Japanese corporate culture
such as ZEN-IN-SANKA (participation of all members),

TEAMWORK or KAIZEN.
According to the agreement, this course will last 3 more
years and KITA would like to contribute continuously to apart of this national project.
This course was the first challenge in the first field for
us KITA and I would like to express my sincere gratitude
to all people and enterprises extended their convenienceand cooperation to this program.
Hiroshi Kitada
Course Leader of KITA

The company training at West-Japan
Auto Recycle Co.,Ltd.

The Lecture of TPS(Toyota Production System) by
TOYOTA ENGINEERING staffers

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Reports on the 1st JICA Training Course in "Sewage Operation and
Maintenance System and Effluent Treatment Technologies"
Sewage systems are among the most fundamental
urban infrastructures being upgraded in developing
countries. This means that developing professional
engineers with expertise, in particular in operation andmaintenance (O&M) of sewage facilities, is becoming anurgent need.
This course, run for the first time, was attended byseven participants from five nations, namely, Egypt, Iran,Mongolia, Pakistan and Peru. For two months from the
middle of this January, the participants received training
mainly from the sewage system specialists from the Cityof Kitakyushu’s Construction Bureau. The training offeredas lectures and site visits included basic knowledge ofsewage systems, planning, designing and O&M ofsewage facilities and pipe lines, and sewage use andtreatment.
Their main interest included sewage works’ odor
control, checking the quality of effluent flowing into thesewage, compact sewage facilities for small community,
and a combined septic tank unique to Japan.
The participants created Action Plans to address issues
in their home countries before completing the training. I

hope that the training will prove useful in implementing theplans and developing human resources in their homeorganizations.
We are improving the program for next year by making
the coverage of O&M related topics more thorough,responding to participants’ strong requests.
Hisao Minami
Course Leader of KITA
Tsutomu Nagamine
Course Leader of KITA

Visiting a site of installation ofunderground sewage pipes
in Kitakyushu

Paying a courtesy call to City of
Kitakyushu’s Construction Bureau

JICA Training Course "Waste Management Technique & Environment
Education" Begins
A new course addressing issues related mainly tohousehold waste management facing small islands of the
Pacific Ocean ran for three months starting from the
middle of January. Seven participants from four different
countries including the Republic of the Marshall Islands
and the Republic of Maldives took part and six out of theseven were administrative officials of central or local
governments.
The training, provided as lectures, reference visits andpractical work, focused on such topics as waste
intermediate treatment (e.g., composting, 3Rs, andhazardous waste treatment etc.), final disposal site
(Fukuoka Method), environment education and laws
regarding waste treatment and recycling. The participants
were most interested in the session on environment
education, and communication opportunities with city
residents, students and volunteers were also popular. We
allotted much time to the participants' issuecomprehension and analysis practice, discussions among
them and technical advice during the IA* Workshop andmid-course discussion sessions, which turned out to be

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very popular, too.
In response to strong request, the course will be
implemented as two times per year from FY2009. We willcontinue to improve the course to help participants
develop concrete plans for action after their return home.
* IA (Issue Analysis) : methods for analysis of issues to be resolved

Kozo Kido
Course Leader of KITA

Three-day technical training
on household waste compostingat Jpec Co., Ltd. In Kitakyushu

Household waste composition
analysis at Kitakyushu City
Environment Preservation
Association’s Hiagari OfficeNews&Report

Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
New expectation of environmental cooperation with Haiphong City, Vietnam
On April 17, 2009, a staff of KITA attended the
ceremony for the friendship and cooperation agreement
which was signed between Kitakyushu City mayor andChairman of the Haiphong People's Committee. The twocities agreed to implement the exchange and cooperation
programs for the mutual development of economy andculture for the next five years.
KITA has been conducting the environmental
improvement cooperation in Haiphong City, for example thesupport of making environmental pollution control plans
through the cleaner production technologies for the smalland medium-sized companies, and the environmental
education for local residents.
In March 2009, KITA implemented the JICA training
course in "Promotion of Environmental Conservation with
Cleaner Production" for 10 Vietnamese administrators
including 2 officers from Haiphong City. The purpose of
the training was the human resource development toestablish the sustainable environmental conservation
system and to promote saving energy and resources. We
believe that the training was very successful for them :they could understand the importance and responsibilities
of administration, they would like to suggest theenhancementofadministration
capacity
andestablishment of the monitoring system, they wanted tolearn more about the monitoring and inspection systems
at enterprises, etc. The training was also meaningful
because we could establish the human relations which will
be useful for our future activities.
Based on our past experience, KITA is expected tocontribute more on the environmental improvement in
Haiphong City and promote the cooperation of the twocities.
Yuko Eto
KITA Environmental Cooperation Center

Closing ceremony of the training course in "Promotion of Environmental
Conservation with Cleaner Production" at JICA Kyushu

Investigation on the environmental
improvement cooperation by
KITA expert in Haiphong City

Establishing the Waste Collection System for Residents in Semarang, Indonesia
Receiving the allocation of the Postal Savings forInternational Voluntary Aid donation, KITA has been
conducting improvement of the waste management
system for the communities in Semarang, Indonesia,
since 2008, and promoting garbage composting andseparation of recyclable wastes for proper waste
management.
In the fiscal year 2008, with the cooperation of
BINTARI Foundation, local NGO, we had supported
the environmental conservation activities at two model
communities in Jomblang area of the city, in which thegarbage dumping is a big problem.
To enhance the environmental awareness, we hadprovided the training for residents in the model
communities and started garbage composting andseparation of the recyclable wastes by residents.
In this fiscal year again, we have a plan to conduct
the similar activities in Tugurejo area of the city. I
hope that these activities will be expanded to thewhole city and help the environmental improvement.
Sayuri Yamaga
KITA Environmental Cooperation Center

Training in Model
Community inSemarang, Indonesia

Composting in householdin Semarang, Indonesia

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News&ReportCompletion of "Training Project of Monitoring for Water Quality
Improvement" in Sri Lanka
It was a JICA project for improving water quality of lakes
and rivers in Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, two main cities in
Sri Lanka, which is aiming at tourism nation. Since 2006
for three years, we had been implementing the "Training
Project of Monitoring for Water Quality Improvement" forlocal tourist cities, and we had invited three environmental
experts to Kitakyushu City every year. They had a onemonth training of water quality monitoring, analyticalpractice, and visit to environmental agencies.
As a follow-up program, in February 2009 KITA experts
visited Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, the tourist cities to attract
visitors from all over the world. After our research on theaquatic life and the water quality in the rivers of the cities,
we found the possibility of water management by biologicalindicators and environmental education. We held seminars
for them including city mayor, and mini-seminars for the
residents along the rivers. At the discussion with Central
Environmental Authority (CEA), the Ministry of Environment
and Natural Resources, we could share the common
understanding about the future directions of ourenvironmental cooperation project. In Colombo, we were
frightened by the terrorism of opposition forces, but thewords by an officer in the environmental authority were
impressive, "You had a frightful time by the terrorism but thisis a good country anyway."
Satoshi Nakazono
Chief Executive KITA
Environmental Cooperation Center
Hisao Minami
Course Leader of KITA

Monitoring for water quality
improvement at Kandy City

Seminars including city mayor
at Nuwara Eliya City

"Waste Management of Citizen Participatory Type" in Indonesia
With the cooperation of Kitakyushu City and KITA,
Surabaya City in Indonesia achieved a great success of"Waste Management of Citizen Participatory Type", which
promotes separating and recycling of domestic wastes
with a core activity of garbage composting for domestic
use. It attracts a lot of attention of other cities inIndonesia.
In Makassar City, the capital of Sulawesi, with the
population of approx. 1.3 million, they face waste
problems including scattered litter in rivers and roads, andshortage in the capacity of final disposal sites. Makassar
City asked Kitakyushu City for cooperation to conduct thewaste management of citizen participatory type based on
the experience in Surabaya City, and it started as JICA
project.
From July 12 to 17, we had done several works, suchas courtesy calls on high-level officials in Makassar andSurabaya Cities, field surveys, visits to Indonesian
government agencies and JICA office in Indonesia,
confirmation of counterparts, and understanding thepresent condition.

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A model area is selected in Makassar City for garbage
composting for domestic use. We have a plan to dispatch
experts three times in this fiscal year to promote thegarbage composting for domestic use and to support the
installation and management of a compost center. We
also plan to establish the system to spread this activity to
the surrounding cities of Makassar City.
Masaya Nagaishi
KITA Environmental
Cooperation Center

Advanced community
in Makassar City

Garbage Compostingin Household

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Presentation of suitable technologies to Chelyabinsk, Russia from Kitakyushu
For 8 days from March 22, 2009 the Expert Mission
from Kitakyushu was dispatched to Russia, jointly withROTOBO* and Kitakyushu City. In Chelyabinsk City, we
set up an exhibition booth introducing some steel
production technologies developed by the participant
companies of this mission at the 2nd International
Industries Forum and I was honored to make apresentation for one of the workshops. I spoke a topic ofenergy- and resource-saving activities conducted among
Japanese steel industries.
We also had a business meeting with Mashprom
Corporation in Yekaterinburg, 200km north of Chelyabinsk
and introduced the excellence of steel production
technologies used by Kitakyushu enterprises. Throughout
our visit we were able to promote the name of Kitakyushu
City as a city representing both "Environment" and "Steel".
As a result of the successful meeting with Mashprom
Corporation, their executive vice president and a chiefengineer came to visit Kitakyushu from June 8th to 12th tosee first-hand how high the levels of technologies used bythose Kitakyushu enterprises are. They visited the plants
and factories of those enterprises and participated in
active discussions at each occasion.
The areas of technologies that they showed particularinterests were included plating of CC mold, long-life millrolls, sophisticated valves for de-scaling of hot rolling ofplate, and high-tech inverters. Some missions including
Kitakyushu enterprises are planned to visit Yekaterinburg
from September through December to hold further
business meetings. It is our great pleasure that businessmatching between Kitakyushu and Russia is starting
growing little by little.
* ROTOBO: Japan Association for Trade with Russia & NIS

Kazuya Kudo,
Vice president of KITA
Hiroshi Ueno,
Trade Promotion Division,
Industry and Economics
Bureau, City of Kitakyushu

Kazuya Kudo giving apresentation at the Forum

What is expected to the vast state Liaoning in China
Kitakyushu City has kept amicable relationship with
Dalian City by cooperation for overcoming environmental
issues successfully since 1995. This good relationship is
expected to apply to Shenyang and Anshan City those are
one of the greatest industrial area. Accordingly Kitakyushu
City dispatched 8 experts team (3 from KITA) to there tosurvey about real their needs in March this year.
Shenyang is the historical capital-city of state Liaoning
with 7 million population. There are various natural
resources in this state, the most noteworthy of which isMagnesite occupying 80% of Chinese production and
24% of total amount of deposit in the world. There aremany refractory makers neighboring community
depending on Magnesite those have willingness tocollaborate with Japanese enterprises.
Anshan (3.7 million population) is typical industrial citywith 13 million tons/year of steel production at one
steelworks which is one of the biggest in the world. The
sintering plant without desulfurizing equipment of waste
gas is located close to city center of Anshan. As that iscause the most serious environmental problem in thisarea, experiences and technologies in Kitakyushu aresurely helpful to overcome this problem. The expert teamof Kitakyushu is ready to give cooperation, if requested.
Nobuyoshi Tanaka
Technical Advisor of KITA

The view of gigantic steelworks
from city center of Anshan

Meeting with the Liaoning state
person concerned

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Informative news and topics
Action Plans introduced on a TV conference〜Reports from the former participants of the course:
Industrial pollution control management for Middle East〜
As part of our course we held a TV conference on
December 24 last year between the participants at JICA
Kyushu and former participants at the JICA local offices.
Its purpose was presentations about the current status of
the implementation of the Action Plans (APs) prepared byformer participants, thus giving the participants in Japanthe opportunity to see actions successfully being taken invarious home countries. We thus hoped to encourage thecourse participants to recognize significance of the
training they were receiving.
Seven participants from six different countries of the
Middle East, including Iran and Iraq, and two former
participants from Iran and Turkey attended the conference
to present their APs. Mr. Alipour Ali's AP objective was to"recover chrome from chromic acid waste," and Mr.
Karaaslan Yakup of Turkey introduced his goal to"establish olive oil effluent treatment technologies". All thecurrent participants were administrative officials fromenvironment ministries and the issues addressed by bothAPs concerned many of them, making active discussions
during the conference. In particular, Mr. Alipour Ali talked
about his AP being covered in a newspaper article. Mr.
Karaaslan Yakup, joining from Turkey's capital, Ankara,
where there was heavy snow, also spoke enthusiastically
about his ongoing efforts for AP implementation despite
many difficulties.
The participants in the course were greatly inspired by
the conference and they themselves wrapped up highly
effective APs before return home.
Junji Kawasaki
Course Leader of KITA

At theTV Conference

What we learned at Shibushi City in Kagoshima by training course"Solid Waste Management Workshop for PIF* countries"
As a part of the workshop program, we had an
opportunity to visit Shibushi City in June 2009.
Shibushi City has various features as follows. The rateof the resource recovery reaches 73% which means thefirst place among all cities in Japan. And also they
reduced waste disposal by 80% for 7 years since 1998
successfully. It is one of surprises that they have no
incinerator but landfill site has been kept sufficiently.
Municipal waste is segregated into 28 categories except
industrial one.
Though landfill site has been used for nearly 20 years
that is expected original life, estimated life still remains foranother several decades.
There is no leachate nor offensive odor problem without
treatment facility. Because, kitchen garbage is notincluded in this waste. The waste is used as raw material
for composting.
We were aware that the big success in solid waste
management in Shibushi City is based on a good
relationship between administration and citizen. This is
the result of enthusiastic effort carried out by the staff
concerned. Shibushi City has the slogan as an

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environmental policy "Care Materials, Care People" and it
has taken firm hold in daily life.
As KITA could increase the knowledge on environment
management, hopefully, participants of other training
courses will visit Shibushi City, even if we have to bearlong travel from Kitakyushu City.
*PIF ： Pacific Islands Forum

Michio Kawai
Course Leader of KITA

Refuse truck at waste collection
point at Shibushi City

Group picture in front ofagricultural tool museumat Shibushi City

KITA international training courses in FY2009
JICA
Group training

Type

No

Title of training course

4

5

6

7

JICA
Area-focused training
2009
8

9

10

11

12

JICA
Country-focused training

1

2

2010
3
4

5

KITA
Individual training

6

Course Leader＊

7

Environment management
1(Middle East) Industrial pollution control management

Kawasaki2

Industrial wastewater treatment technique Ⅱ

Arakawa8

3

Domestic wastewater treatment technique

Yonezawa

104(Southwest Asia) Solid waste management

Haraguchi

85(Southeastern Europe) Promotion of Cleaner Production

Nishino10

6(Southeastern Europe) Promotion of Cleaner Production (A)Nishino12

7

Design method for environmental pollution quality standard and regulation

Haraguchi

108(KOICA-JICA) Environmental protection technology and management for air pollution control

Nishino15

9(KOICA-JICA) Energy conservation & environment protection in East Asia

Kawai

12

10

Sewage operation & maintenance system and effluent treatment technology

Nagamine

11

11

Waste management technique & environment education (A)Sashiwa

7

12

Waste management technique & environment education (B)

Kido

9

13

Management of air pollution source

Kido

8

14

(Oceania) Solid waste management workshop

Kawai

14

15

(Argentina) Activity of solid waste reduction

16

Environmental and energy-saving operations seminar for SME engineers

17

Environmental and energy-saving operations seminar for SME managers

18

Low-carbon technology seminar for East Asia countries

19

Training course of environment consevation for oil producer in Middle East

Fujimoto

1010Kawasaki

5

Ishii

15

Ishii

15

Tanaka10

Production technology , Plant engineering and CP
1(Malaysia) 5S(Productivity improvement activity) in vocational training institute

Rikimaru

2(South America) Practical production management

Miyamoto

7

3
4

Facility maintenance management for productivity improvement and CP (A),(B)

Ishikawa

7/9

5

Practical technique of mechatronics & robot

Taniguchi

6

6
7(Central and South America) CP in process industries (A),(B)

Abe

8/8

8

(Egypt) Quality and productivity management technique

Miyamoto

59(Asia) Audit technology for energy conservation & plant diagnosis(A): energy conservation technique course

Yazu

7

10

(Asia) Audit technology for energy conservation & plant diagnosis(B): machine diagnosis technique course

Ueyama6

11(Mercosur) Technology for energy conservation

Kawaguchi

8

12
13

(Central and South America) Dissemination of productivity improvement activity (A),(B)Kawasaki

8/8

14(Argentina) Cleaner Production in iron & steel industry

Ueno

2/4

15

(India) Technology for energy conservation (A)Ueyama15

16(India) Technology for energy conservation (B)Tanaka15

17Lifeline facility maintenance management by Non-destructive inspection technique

Toyama10

18(Malaysia) Training course for competitive advantage of Malaysian automotive parts industry

Kitada17

Promoting of Recycling-based Society
1(ASEAN) Construction and designing for sound material cycle society

Kawai

6

2

(ASEAN-India) Asian sustainable society development (programmed by prefecture)

Tajima83(China) Asian sustainable society development (programmed by prefecture)

Tajima

7

Miki

12

Job training , Local revitalization and Others
1(Central and South America) Job training coordinated with industry

2

Occupational & environmental health management for sustainable development

Takahashi

7

3

Food sanitation administration

Terasaki

11

4(South America) Vitalization of medium and small sized enterprise for local industry (training)

Miki

6

5

(South America) Vitalization of medium and small sized enterprise for local industry (A)

Miki

9

6

(South America) Vitalization of medium and small sized enterprise for local industry (B)

Miki

7

Activity for industrial accident prevention

Ueyama5

Human Resource Development for Asia
1

Sewerage management technique for Hohhot

Yasuda10

2

Sewerage management technique for Kunming

Tsuruta

6×3

3Construction for sustainable society for Liaoning

Sashiwa

10

4

CLAIR participant training

Murakami

45

Environment consevation by CP for Viet Nam

Eto

2＊ participants capacity(as of August 26, 2009)●The detail of the course & annual schedule can be seen in KITA 's Web site ( http://www.kita.or.jp/ )KITA NEWS No.9 11

Topics and Information
KITA received Environmental Conservation Achievement Award 2009 by the
Ministry of the Environment for its international environmental cooperationn June 10, the Environmental Conservation
Achievement Award 2009 was given to KITA by
the Minister of the Environment in Japan. This award
recognizes the long-term outstanding contributions ofindividuals and organizations in the environmental
conservation area. This year's winners are 14 individuals/organizations: 2 organizations including the Yamashina
Institute of Ornithology and 12 individuals including
Nobutoshi Akao, former Secretary General of the ASEANJapan Centre.
The day, June 5, was designated as "the World
Environment Day" at the United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment which was held in Stockholm inJune 1972. And one week from the day was designatedas the environment week and in 1976 the Environmental

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Conservation Achievement Award system was establishedas one of the events during the environment week.
Recipients are nominated by the Director General for the
Department of the Ministry of the Environment. It is one ofthe "most important awards by the Ministry of theEnvironment" (excerpt from the speech by the Minister).
The award was given to Dr. Ryokichi Hirono, a
consultant of KITA andprofessor emeritus of
the Seikei University, in
2004, and Mr. Koichi
Sueyoshi, former Mayorof Kitakyushu City, in
2007.

KITA's International Friendship ExchangeInternational Exchange and Understanding Starting from Home Visits
Host Family Member, Kyoko Imahashi
Residents in Kokurakita, Kitakyushu Cityhen we first started out to be a host family, wewere all very nervous even for a once-a-monthprogram, but with time we became able to open up to ourhome visit participants not just superficially.
What makes me very happy now is that someparticipants who had stayed with us take the time tocome long way from Tokyo to Kitakyushu for a weekend
when they visit again in Japan for business or training.
When I ask "Why Fukuoka?" they say with a big smile"Of course to see my 'host mother'!" These are
moments of great happiness as a host family. There arealso cases in which our home visit participants introduce
us to their fellow participants and through them we
become acquainted with participants from other courses
or other organizations, and we can develop a "bigger
circle" of international friendship.
Our children, who were in high school and junior highschool in the early days, are now grown up and have leftW

home. However, that has brought me more chances toreceive invitations from our former home visit
participants to enjoy trips that are more than just sightseeing. Last year I had an opportunity to tour around
South East Asia. I attended a wedding and visited aschool in the country, which made me realize first-handhow different lives in the capital and country. Participantscome from around the world to acquire knowledge andtechnology to take back home to contribute to thedevelopment of theirhome countries. What ismore, I hope to continue
to give them as muchsupport as we can as
their host family during
their stays in Japan.
Attending a former home visit
participant’s wedding in Thailand

No.9
KITA
NEWS
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA ; kaita)
October 2009

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