NEWS
Kitakyushu
International
Techno-cooperative
Association

No.13
2012
OctoberContents
2 A Message from President of KITA
〜Seven Management Guidelines〜
3 Close-up of some KITA training courses
7 Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines
11 KITA international training courses in FY 2012
12 Other two topics and information

Training Course prepared by KITA is plentiful Program including Field PracticeNowadays clean power generation and renewable energy attract attention greatly because of the issue of global warming
and nuclear power plant. In the training courses provided by JICA / KITA, new courses such as solar power and small scale
hydraulic power generation have been prepared for many participants from various developing countries.
The photos show scenes of field training in “Solar power generation technology” course for two months from February, 2012.
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association

A Message from President of KITA

S even Management Guidelines
Hideki Furuno
In the 32 years since KITA was founded in 1980 wehave passed down and expanded upon our founding
principles, though naturally circumstances also arosein which the changing times required new policies. It
so happens that national policy requires a radical
revision of the incorporated foundation system. Major
institutional reforms are being promoted, such as thereform of the decision-making process including theaccounting system, and fairness and transparency arealso being strongly advocated. After more than thirty
years, we need to take a fresh look at KITA, as well as
to comply with the state's new system. With myappointment as president, we took the opportunity toestablish the following seven medium-term guidelines
for KITA, ones that respond to changes in Japan andoverseas, and that also take local needs into account.
As was stated at the beginning of FY2011, they were
to be swiftly put into practice and steadily promoted
from that year, and KITA's activities in FY2012 will
also adhere to them.
1.Maintaining our founding principles andcapitalizing on Kitakyushu's geographicalposition- Our founding principles are written into our
statutes and will be passed down to future
generations.
- We have started to hand over to the younger
generation and to make use of the extensive
human resources in the Kitakyushu area. We can
expect even greater revitalization from now on.
2.Establishing internal cooperation among thedivisions of KITA
- We have established meetings between the
directors of three divisions to enhanceorganizational cooperation.
- Links will be strengthened even further in FY2012.
3.Strengthening our partnership with the City of
Kitakyushu and JICA
- We will continue to hold the top-level discussions
with JICA Kyushu and Kitakyushu City's
Environmental Bureau and Industry andEconomics Bureau that were launched in
FY2011.
- Our task for FY2012 is to strengthen relations with
Kitakyushu City's Asian Center for Low Carbon
Society.

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4.Surveying and finding overseas needs andestablishing KITA networks with former
participants
We took the following actions to give shape to
KITA's distinctive assets. They will be expanded inscope and given more substance in FY2012.
(1) Surveys of technological trends in the South
East Asian steel industry(2) Visits to local JICA offices in Malaysia andIndonesia, and surveys of the needs of thosecountries(3) Joint visits with JICA Kyushu to Ghana, Chileand Colombia, with follow-up interviews withreturned participants(4) A correspondence chart of KITA training courses
and the countries that participate in them tograsp the relationship between the countries andthe courses and to understand thecharacteristics of each country(5) E-mail exchanges between course leaders andreturned participants
5.Improving the revenue of KITA and securing
profitability in each division- Improving the accuracy of the budget forecast andrealizing visualization of the income andexpenditure of each division.
- From FY2012 we will firmly instill this practice andencourage its spread into each division.
6.Expanding infrastructure- Wireless LAN, PC stations, outsourcing of help
desk work, launch of a business support system,
development of a document management
system, introduction of a schedule management
system, etc.
- The first level is scheduled for completion in
FY2012.
7.Securingtransparency
anddisclosing
information in line with the shift to a public
interest incorporated foundation- The reform of our decision-making process,review of all our regulations, a radical revision of
our accounting methods, and further streamliningof KITA operations.
- Under our new system as a public interest
incorporated foundation, in FY2012 we willobserve the necessary rules that deal withsecuring transparency and disclosing information,and run KITA in a correct and efficient manner.

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Close-up of some KITA training courses
A Report from a Former Participant〜 Trying an Action Plan as Philippine Government Body 〜
Shoji Yazu, Course Leader of KITA
The rapid economic growth in the Asian region lies behindthe surge in environmental pollution and CO2 emissions.
JICA/KITA planned “Environmental Technology for Low
Carbon Society Course” to introduce technology to counter
this as swiftly as possible. The aim of the training is that,when participants return to their homeland, they will havedeveloped the ability to draw up and implement action plansto build a low carbon society by reducing CO2 emissions,based on the content of their training.
The course was held (for the first time) in September oflast year and 11 participants from 7 countries (China, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Pakistan and thePhilippines) came to Japan for a month of training. It madethe participants aware of the importance of eco-efficiency
and energy conservation.
KITA soon received an action plan putting the fruits of his
training into practice from Mr. Arca Ruperto Tahimic, a
specialist in advanced environmental management at the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He has
also submitted this plan to the government body to which hebelongs. His proposals include (1) installing solar panels atgovernment buildings and on street lights to save energy, (2)promoting the installation of experimental small hydroelectric
generators, and (3) purifying used cooking oils to makebiofuel.
Japan’s rapid post-war economic development also
created serious pollution problems. From now on it will beessential to create environmentally-friendly cities that do notcause the environmental problems experienced by Japan.
We therefore hope that trainees will make good use of theinformation and technologies they have learned.

Mr. Arca Ruperto Tahimic,
a former participant fromthe Philippines who is working tobuild a low carbon society

A scene from last year’s course"Domestic Wastewater Treatment Techniques Course"〜 Let’s Study on Superior WWTP (Wastewater Treatment Plant) in Japan 〜
Sakae Yonezawa, Course Leader of KITA
Even if the infrastructure is paralyzed when equipment
is damaged in a huge disaster, alternative measures suchas water tank trucks and PET bottles can be used tosupply water, and things such as generators and batteries
can be used to supply electricity. However, there are no
substitutes for the sewerage system, which is essential
infrastructure to safeguard a healthy and sanitary lifestyle.
In particular, the amount of water being used indeveloping countries is increasing, and domestic
wastewater treatment has become an urgent matter.
Accordingly, we ran the three-month Domestic
Wastewater Treatment Techniques course from the endof August of last year , providing training for five
participants from India, Thailand, Indonesia andZimbabwe. Each of these countries is confronted with the
problems of domestic wastewater discharge and theoperation and maintenance of wastewater treatment
plants, and the participants learned Japaneseexperiences and technology dealing with everything fromnight soil treatment, Johkasou (septic tank) treatment
and membrane process to sewer management and water
filtration processing.
Participants were particularly interested in such
subjects as recycling wastewater resources like sewage
sludge and digestion gas, and methods and techniques tooperate and maintain wastewater treatment plants.
Building upon last year’s experience, I intend to make thistraining course even more substantial in FY2012.

Training at the Munakata City
Wastewater Treatment Plant(WWTP)

Training in sewage pipe
manufacturing at Nippon Hume
Corporation’s Kyushu factory

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Reports on the JICA Training Course in "The Solid Waste Managementwith Community Participation"
Kiyoshi Haraguchi, Course Leader of KITA
The rapid urbanization and industrialization ofdeveloping countries has meant that household refuse
and hazardous waste are not being properly processed,
leading to such environmental problems as garbage
stench and groundwater contamination.
This course was held over roughly two months from
September of last year for participants from Asian
countries. Its aim is for them to learn about Japanesewaste disposal systems and techniques so that they cancontribute to waste disposal in their homeland. The
course covers a lot of ground, including garbage collection
and incineration, industrial waste processing, disposal ofhazardous waste, recycling and composting techniques,
and the construction and maintenance of final disposalsites. The participants were particularly impressed by thecheap and simple composting method using cardboard.
We are pushing the combination of environmental
education and cardboard composting as the “KitaQ

system*” since it is well suited to developing countries.
We hope that this method will be widely deployed indeveloping countries.
* KitaQ system : a waste management method focusing on garbage
composting, which was developed in Kitakyushu
Learning about garbage separationfrom volunteers
at the Kitakyushu Environment
Museum

A discussion with neighborhoodgroups at Kitakyushu Aoba
Community Center

Reports on the JICA Training Course in "Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Techniques (A)"Toshikazu Arakawa, Course Leader of KITA
The aim of this course is to teach the participants themeasures and processing techniques which have beenacquired through the successes achieved in improving water
quality through Kitakyushu’s industry-academic-government
collaborations to deal with the serious water pollution in
Dokai Bay. Our objective is to train human resources
capable of planning and implementing measures that suitthe conditions of their country, and to resolve the industrial
wastewater treatment problems faced by the various
countries. Five participants from three countries joined the
FY2011 course, which was held for almost four months
starting in late August of last year.
The course covers the history of water pollution, thefoundations of environmental administration andwastewater treatment laws, and the operation,
maintenance and management of treatment facilities. In
order to achieve results during the short time of thecourse, (1) there was a lot of field training, (2) practicaltraining and experiential learning were emphasized, and(3) for the technical compilation assignment dealing withthe planning and design of wastewater treatment facilities,
the participants were divided into three groups andproduced blueprints using CAD, which a representative

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from each group then explained in a presentation. The
participants rated the course very highly, for example bycommenting on how substantial the training was.
We strongly hope that, after the participants return totheir homeland, they will have acquired further technicalskills through their practical work in planning
improvements and new facilities, and that they will
successfully carry out the action plan they drew up before
their return.

A training session at JICA Kyushu
on the design ofwastewater treatment facilities

Observing the backwashing
operation at Anoh Water
Purification Plant, Kitakyushu

News&Report"9th Training on Water Environment Improvement for Kunming City, China"
Saburo Tsuruta, Environmental Expert of KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
As a part of “Water Environment Treatment Project inKunming City”, which is a Yen loan project by JBIC*, KITA
has conducted the human development training of sewerage
works for Kunming City and we have already completed 8
training courses for a total of 65 participants since March
2007. And we accepted to conduct 4 more training courses
to receive 24 participants.
In the 9th training course, a group of 6 members had
participated the training; a group leader, Mr. Wang
Zhongming and 5 officers of the Kunming Municipal
Construction and Management Bureau for North Bank Water
Environment Treatment Project of Dianchi Lake**. The
training was held for 15 days from Jan. 5th to 19th in 2012,
under the theme of advanced maintenance/management
system of sewerage facilities and it consisted of lectures onmaintenance/management of sewerage in Kitakyushu Cityand field survey of the sewage pipe renewal method. Theysaw the advanced sewage pipe renewal method in theJapan SPR*** Association in Tokyo and visited the Lake
Biwa Environmental Research Institute to learn the water
environment preservation of Lake Biwa, which is useful toimprove the water environment in Dianchi Lake.
We are very glad if their knowledge gained in the training
about water environment preservation of Lake Biwa and theexperience of Kitakyushu City will be useful for improving
water environment and maintenance/management of thesewerage system in Kunming City.
* JBIC : Japan Bank for International Cooperation** Dianchi Lake : It is the 6th biggest fresh water lake in China,
located in Kunming City. The area is about half of Lake Biwa*** SPR : Sewaga Pipe Renewal Method

Observation on sewage pipe
renewal method

Lake Biwa Environmental
Research Institute in Otsu City,
Shiga"The Waste Management Techniques (C) Course"〜 Towards a Sound Material-Cycle Society in Vietnam 〜
Kozo Kido, Course Leader of KITA
This course was run (for the first time) over a roughly
two-month period from late February. There were eightparticipants: five engineers from state-run urban
environment companies (from Hanoi, Da Nang and HoiAn), two local government employees, and one state
employee (from the Ministry of Construction).
In this course Japanese environmental policies and thewaste management system were explained, and theylearn about waste treatment techniques (includingcollection and transportation, intermediate treatment,
recycling and composting), final disposal site technology,
and specific techniques to use in environmental
education. Many of the participants this time were
responsible for work involving final disposal sites(including leachate treatment facilities), and thesemi-aerobic type “Fukuoka Method” was their favorite.
This kind of landfill is scheduled to be built in Vietnam in
Hai Phong. It is hoped that the use of this method will thenspread to other Vietnamese cities. As in Japan, land is
scarce in Vietnam, and disposal sites do not havesufficient capacity. Apparently Vietnam is considering
incineration, in addition to promoting a soundmaterial-cycle society (3R*), to resolve this issue.
I hope to create an opportunity for the Japaneseenvironmental business to become involved in this.
*3R：Reduce、Reuse、Recycle
Practical training in collection
and transportation
at a garbage stationas part of the training
on the work-flow ofgeneral garbage processing

On the viewing platform
at the participants favorite:
the “Fukuoka Method” Nakata
Final Disposal Site in Nishi-ku,
Fukuoka

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News&Report"Practical Business Management for Productivity Improvement Activities
Course" for Vitalizing Vietnam
Tadashi Miyamoto, Course Leader of KITA
Vietnam is a young nation undergoing rapid
industrialization where more than 60% of the population isaged under 30. It will play a central role in the Mekong
India Economic Corridor. It is currently trying to evolvefrom the technique-based world of “individual skills” to thatof “organizational management”. The Vietnamese have aclear goal in sight but still don’t see how to get there. In
order to resolve this problem, JICA/KITA set up a course
for executives in medium-sized companies.
This training course only lasts for two weeks soparticipants are required to finish reading the textbook
before they come to Japan. The course itself is made up
of “genba shisatsu (field trips) ” to see Japan’s abundantingenuity and wisdom by action and discussions. The
composition of this course reflects the content of surveys
made on an advance visit by the author to Vietnam,
including visits to local Vietnamese companies, anddiscussions with previous trainees and senior volunteers
stationed in Vietnam. The participants are actuallyexperiencing difficulties and it seems that coming into

contact with the Japanese “genba and genbutsu (the field
and actual products)” accelerates their understanding.
The course was very favorably received, and we weretold that they wanted to increase the number ofparticipants and send two groups next time. I would like toinclude an introduction to Japanese culture, as requestedby the participants, and make this a course thatsuccessfully contributes to the professional growth of theparticipants.

A group photo after a training session
at Nakashima Co., Ltd.

A production control andquality control training session
at Seinan Electronic Co., Ltd.

Starting of the JICA Training Course"Maintenance Management for Productivity Improvement"
Takashi Ishikawa, Course Leader of KITA
I inherited the JICA course training maintenancemanagers to achieve cleaner production from mypredecessor 10 years ago, since when it has been held
11 times and trained 56 participants from 23 countries.
From this year the course will focus more on maintenanceand will include the latest information even though it has
been shortened to around two months in duration. It has
been re-launched as “Maintenance Management for
Productivity Improvement” and will welcome participantsfrom eight countries September of this year.
Nowadays means of production have shifted frommanual methods to automated equipment, andproductivity mainly depends on the quality of themaintenance management. What is particularly importantis not the level of technical skill on the maintenance site
but the capability to make improvements for the tasks at
workplace, in other words integrated ability of making
innovation. Of course the workplace maintenance ability
does not simply boost production. It also makes a big
contribution to reducing global environment problems, andsaving energy and resources.

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This course therefore not only offers detailed
explanations of the techniques, technologies and skills forthe efficient maintenance management of production
facilities from lecturers with a wealth of experience in thefield, but also enables the participants to master thesetechniques, technologies and skills via the necessary
practical training. It also includes visits to major
companies so that participants can view and experience
actual on-site conditions.

Training about inverters
at YASKAWA ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.

Practical training in pump centering
at SANKYU RESEARCH AND
CREATE Co., Ltd.

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Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Completion of "Food Sanitation Administration Course"
Hisomu Terasaki, Course Leader of KITA
This course is intended for administrators involved infood sanitation administration in developing countries. It
offers lectures, practical training and field trips with theobjective of giving participants an understanding ofintegrated food hygiene measures in Japan, from foodproduction and processing to distribution and consumption,and enabling them to implement appropriate foodsanitation measures when they return to their homelands.
During the past six years the course has been held six
times, for a total of 61 participants from 25 countries.
In the first year (FY2006), reserving appropriate
lecturers was the biggest issue I faced in writing thecurriculum. Luckily we received the full cooperation of theKitakyushu Public Health and Welfare Bureau and otherbureaus. We established an extensive collaborative
system that includes the Kyushu Regional Bureau ofHealth and Welfare, Kyushu Regional Agricultural
Administration Office, Fukuoka prefectural and municipal
public facilities, the University of Occupational andEnvironmental Health Japan, the National Fisheries
University, and various private companies in Kitakyushu,
and were able to run a well-rounded course for six years.
From FY2012 the course will be run by a new leader andgiven the name “Enhanced Food Hygiene Administration”,
and an even more substantial course is being scheduled.
Food safety is a very important issue throughout theworld. I sincerely hope that our training course helps toimprove food hygiene in line with the conditions in eachparticipant’s country.

Training in food additive analysis at
the Kitakyushu City Environmental
Bureau’s Institute of Environmental
Sciences

Training in temperature control
at a Kitakyushu supermarket

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Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Survey on Possibility about Technology Transfer to Electric Furnace Maker in Taiwan
Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Technical Advisor of KITA
When the forum on steel-related technology took place at
Taipei and Kaohsiung in February 2011, both parties haveconcluded the friendship & cooperation agreement topromote close relationship for exchanging technology.
Based on it, Taiwanese mission came Kitakyushu for the
purpose of the investigation into “steel-related technology
and system in Japan” in June, 2011. In December, theteam Kitakyushu visited Electric Furnace Makers (4companies) and Metal Research Center in Kaohsiung anddiscussed the possibility of transfer Hi-tech items from
Kitakyushu afterwards.
When we met again in May 2012, they are confirmed to
be technologies relating energy saving, conservation ofnatural resources and quality improvement as follows.
(1) Treatment and usage effectively of Electric Furnaceslag(2) De-scaling of slabs and blooms before hot rolling(3) Regenerative Burner for Reheating Furnace(4) Maintenance of rolling roll and application of long-life rollMichinobu Saito, Technical Advisor of KITA

According to the information from Taiwan, the electric
power charge will be raised by 35% within this year.
Electricity unit price in Taiwan was less than half of Japan
until now. Therefore it may be said that consciousness forthe energy saving was slightly low. They expect adoptionof an energy saving technology in Japan very much. For
example, metallic iron can be recovered from Electric
Furnace slag effectively and use as scrap substitute.
Taiwanese mission will come Kitakyushu again to discussthem in more detail soon.

Electric Furnace Plant
Yieh United Steel

Exchange of Technical Information

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Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
JETRO・RIT* : Preliminary Survey on KazakhstanSusumu
Steelworks
Kubo
Assistant Course Leader of KITA

Kazuya Kudo, Vice President of KITA
From June 18 I represented a mission for three-day visit
to the Arcelor Mittal Kazakhstan (AMK) steelworks in
Astana, Kazakhstan as part of a joint Kitakyushu City and
JETRO project to investigate the possibility of transferring
the environmental, energy-saving and long operational life
technology possessed by Kitakyushu companies, a stepthat KITA has been promoting in the Ural region.
AMK was built in 1960, has been modernizing since1970 and was taken over by Arcelor Mittal in 1995. AMK
is an integrated steelworks manufacturing high quality flat
steel products such as tin plate and galvanized sheet inTemirtau, a city of 180,000, where most of theemployment is connected with steel manufacturing. They
are self-sufficient in most raw materials, including iron ore
and coal, and 85% of the steel produced is exported.
They have serious environmental issues such as SOx
emissions and pay 1.3 billion yen a year as surcharge.
Kazakhstan has signed up to participate in Kyoto Protocol
and tries to put up 5% a year of energy-saving for
attaining total 25% of reduction in five years. There isclear policy to increase environmental surcharge year by
year, too.

Therefore introduction of the advanced technology ofJapan such as CDQ, waste gas desulfurization and slag
processing should be necessary, and I will now proceedwith business matching.
* JETRO・RIT：JETRO Regional Industry Tie-Up
The 3,000 ㎥ AMK blast
furnace

A meeting between
the General Director of
the JETRO Tashkent Officeand executives fromthe company entrustedwith slag processing

Proposal on Thermal Recycling of Waste Plastics to Cement Industry
Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto, Executive Director of Technical Cooperation Division of KITA
This article is concerning thermal recycling of waste
plastics to cement industry. Three methods are possible
for waste plastic recycling, i.e. “material recycling (MR)”,“chemical recycling (CR)”, and “thermal recycling (TR)”.
MR and CR are inappropriate from both economical andtechnical points of views. TR seems to be promising fromthe viewpoint of feasibility.
Asian countries are producing large quantity of cement,
because it is the fundamental material. It is common at
Japanese cement companies to utilize waste plastics as
auxiliary fuel, and it plays a significant role in energy
saving. The consumption of waste plastics in Japanese
cement industry in 2010 was 413 thousand tons. The
biggest problem in the waste plastic recycling is its
segregation, collection and transportation. In the countries
that lag behind in legislation, it is substantially impossible
to segregate the waste plastics from household garbage.
This proposal assumes that waste plastics should becollected at large-sized commercial facilities, or plastic
manufactures which generate waste plastics abundantly.
Japanese cement companies are treating solid waste

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routinely in order to reduce cost and save energy. Total
throughput of solid wastes was 469 kg/ton・cement in2010. On the other hand, it is not common that thecement companies in Asian counties accept the solid
waste yet. Energy saving and reduction of carbon dioxide
Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto
emission can be Director-generalachieved by TR ofofwaste
KITA,plastics in
cement industry. Productivity cooperation Center
From Mitsubishi Materials
Corporation Brochure

Waste plastics
Above photos are quoted from “Japan Cement Association home page”

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Improvement Program of Factory Management Capability at Hai Phong City, Vietnam
Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto, Executive Director of Technical Cooperation Division of KITA
This program aims at development of local companies
located in Hai Pong City, as the JICA Grass-roots
Technical Cooperation Project. On carrying it out, wechose up an industry-government-academia team consistof KITA, Kitakyushu City Government and the Universityof Kitakyushu, Hai Phong side also organized similar
team. Both teams worked in collaboration to achieve thegoal. The program has two pillars, (1) personnel training
program, (2) technological assistance to small andmedium enterprises (SMEs).
(1) Personnel training program
We invited 5 teachers of Hai Phong Industrial
Vocational College (HPIVC) to Kitakyushu City andcarried out the training on “Production Management” fortwo weeks. The result was realized immediately. The
curriculum on “Production Management” was adopted andclass at HPIVC was stated from February. It is happy thatthe result was realized promptly.
(2) Technological assistance to SMEs.
We installed consultation window in HPIVC andaccepted consultation of the problems, SMEs are facing.

Japanese engineers visited 30 companies and gave
technical guidance. We suggested concrete solutions tofive companies among them.
This program is continued in 2012. In addition to the
instruction of individual technical area, we are going toperform the instruction of the basic matter of corporate
management, such as 5S* which is indispensable forrational factory administration.
*5S ： SEIRI(Clearing)，SEITON(Organizing)，SEISO (Cleaning)，
SEIKETSU (Standardizing)，SHITSUKE (Training & Discipline)

5S slogan at HPIVC

Class scenery about“production management” at HPIVC

Support for the Kitakyushu-Vietnam (Hai Phong, Hanoi) Business Exchange Project
Toshikatsu Miyata, Technical Advisor of KITA
Based on its friendship and cooperation agreement withHai Phong City in Vietnam, a project is being run in
Kitakyushu to promote business exchanges in the metal
processing sector using JETRO’s RIT* program. KITA is
responsible for providing support for this project, such as
surveys and advice.
September, 2011 we visited Vietnam with the
Kitakyushu Business Mission (in which nine companies
participated), and played a supportive role in factoryinspections and business negotiations. We then invited
two Vietnamese companies with the potential for futuretransactions to visit Japan, and set up opportunities forbusiness negotiations with Kitakyushu companies. These
have produced numerous exchanges between
companies, including the purchase of dust collector, thetrial purchase of valves, and the conclusion of amemorandum of understanding for the development ofjoint ventures.
We paid another visit in July of this year to discover
new partner companies in the Hanoi and Hai Phongareas. In particular, this time we met with the leaders ofthe Hai Phong Machinery Association and the Vietnam

Michinobu Saito, Technical Advisor of KITA

Steel Association, and received promises to support thepromotion of technical and business exchanges. We can
expect a widening in the scope for future businessexchanges.
KITA will continue to work for the further expansion ofbusiness exchanges in both areas.
* RIT：Regional Industry Tie-up

A meeting with the leadersof the Hai Phong Machinery
Association

With Vice President Tamof the Vietnam Steel Association

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Improvement in Efficiency of Waste Management in Malaysia
Masaya Nagaishi, Director of KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
KITA has cooperated in the JICA Grass-roots TechnicalCooperation Project “Promote for Efficiency of Waste
Management in Malaysia” (two-year program from thefiscal year 2011), which is organized by Kitakyushu City.
To conduct field survey, analysis, guidance, andseminars, the delegation is divided into 3 promotion
groups.
(1) Waste collection/transport & proper disposal group(2) Waste composition analysis group(3) Garbage composting promotion group
KITA has charge of assisting No.(3) group and promote
the “KitaQ system”; a waste management method
focusing on garbage composting, which was successful in
Surabaya, Indonesia.
We had visited for five days from April 23 to implement
the technical follow-up of composting activities incommunities and compost centers operated by private
sectors such as hospital, prison, etc. In the community
guided by good leaders, the composting activity is so
active that the compost is utilized for house gardening.
And at the visit to a prison, we observed that they had
performed the experiment to compare vegetation grownby compost and chemical fertilizer for verifying theeffectiveness of compost.
We expect further development of the technology.

Final disposal sitein Malacca City

Participants making
seed compost

Establishment of Waste Management System in Metro Cebu Area, Philippines
Masaya Nagaishi, Director of KITA Environmental Cooperation CenterWith the financial assistance by the Japan Fund for
Global Environment, we have implemented the projectwith the collaboration of JPec Co., Ltd. Wakamatsu
Environment Research Institute, and the Institute for
Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).
Because more than 50% of the waste composition is
garbage, as the waste management system suitable forthe local situation, we have promoted the “KitaQ system”;
a waste management system with a combination of
resource recycling and the Takakura Home Method ofcomposting (household use compost), which was
successful in Surabaya City, Indonesia.
Cebu City has charge of promoting household use
compost and installation/operation of composting centers,and CUSW (Cebu Uniting for Sustainable Water), which isa local NGO, has charge of disseminating the compost
technology to companies and universities. When Cebu
City closed the landfill and started transporting the waste
to the landfill sites owned by other cities, they introduced
the “No Segregation No Collection” policy and achieved
10% waste reduction.

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We expect our waste management system will be a key
for further reduction of waste and promotion of recycling in
Cebu City. We also started the technology transfer
through seminars, etc. to adjacent cities including
Mandaue City in Metro Cebu area.
Instruction on compost
technology at private company

Seminar in the integrated
composting center in Cebu City:
composting center for waste from
communities and markets
in Cebu City
The participants were from
Cebu City, Mandaue City,
Lapu-Lapu City, and Talisay Cityin Metro Cebu area

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River Water Purification is a Desire of Citizens of Surabaya, Indonesia
Shinichi Ogata, Director of International Environmental Strategies Division,
Environment Bureau, City of Kitakyushu
o fulfill the citizens’ desire for cleaning the river water in Surabaya City,
Indonesia, KITA has implemented “the JICA Partnership Program for
Promoting a Decentralized Wastewater Management in City of SURABAYA”.
Because the construction of a large-sized sewage treatment plant requires a greatcost and a long time, KITA suggested small-sized energy saving wastewater
treatment facilities of 3 different types; for community, waterway, and fish market. And
now Surabaya City has a plan to construct them. In this year, which is the 1st year of
the 3-year project, we had dispatched experts to conduct a field survey for selecting
the construction sites of the wastewater treatment facilities in Surabaya City.
We also have a plan to implement the adequate training in Kitakyushu City forconveying our know-how about operation and maintenance of such facilities with theparticipation of citizens.

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Polluted waterway in Surabaya City

KITA Goodwill Bus Tour with the Members of Soroptimist International of
Kitakyushu & Kitakyushu-Nishi
Megumi Toyota, Director of Secretariat of KITA
ver since KITA was founded, our international goodwill programs have received support from the members ofSoroptimist International. In FY2011, a stroll through the castle town of Chofu and a tour of the ‘KAIKYOKAN’,
Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum, on Sunday November 13 was jointly sponsored by Soroptimist International of
Kitakyushu, and on Sunday March 4 a visit to Kyokusui-no-En, the Dazaifu Spring Water Poetry Festival, was jointly
sponsored by Soroptimist International of Kitakyushu-Nishi. During the stroll through the castle town of Chofu in
November, tour members took part in an event at the residence of the head of the Chofu Mouri clan where visitors canactually wear armor and a helmet or dress up as a court lady. The armored and helmeted participants thoroughly
enjoyed feeling just like a “Samurai”. Meanwhile, during their visit to the Dazaifu Spring Water Poetry Festival in March
the participants were entranced by the sight of women wearing gorgeous twelve-layered ceremonial kimono. It was avery precious experience for them where they were able to savor the traditional Japanese dance of the shirabyoshi andthe refined atmosphere of the poetry festival. As always the goodwill bus tours included a game of bingo, the participants
were absolutely thrilled by the prizes kindly donated by the Soroptimists. We hope that the participants were able toenjoy a relaxing break from their daily
routine of hard training in a foreign
land far from their home countries.
We would like to express ourheartfelt gratitude to the members ofSoroptimist International of Kitakyushu
and Soroptimist International of
Kitakyushu-Nishi, and to humbly
request their continued support in the
future.

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Feeling like “Samurai” at the residence ofthe head of the Chofu Mouri clan

In front of Honden (Main Shrine) of
Dazaifu Tenmangu

No.13
KITA
NEWS
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA ; kaita)
October 2012

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