Kitakyushu
International
Techno-cooperative
Association

NEWS
No.12
2012
January

Contents

2 A Message from President of KITA 〜 New Year's Greetings 〜
3 Two Messages from newly-appointed Directors of KITA
4 Close-up of some KITA training courses
8 Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
China, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam,
Taiwan, Indonesia, Russia, Sri Lanka
14 International friendship promotion
15 KITA training courses in FY 2011
16 Other two topics and information

Training Course prepared by KITA is plentiful Program including Field Practice
Kitakyushu has abundant experiences to have overcome environmental pollution. KITA has been transferring thosepollution prevention technologies and know-how to all over the world through practical training program. And also KITA has
specialty in advanced field such as energy conservation and promotion of recycled-based society program.
Above photos show chemical analysis facility of effluent and water treatment plant at field practice.
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association

A Message from President of KITA

N ew Year’s Greetings
Hideki Furuno

President of KITA
At the beginning of 2012, I would like to extend
New Year’s Greetings to you all. Last year big
earthquakes hit the eastern part of Japan and I am
extremely grateful for the great support and warm
encouragement which were provided by overseas,
particularly by countries from which participants once
joined KITA/JICA Training Courses immediately after
the disaster.
Looking over the situations not only in Japan but
worldwide, such as financial crisis in Europe,
economic stagnation in the United States, terrible
disasters in Japan, and heavy floods in Thailand, I
fully recognized that the changes in the economy
and environment of one nation can start a chain
reaction and lead to global-scale economic
contraction. I have been much concerned about
when the world economy will recover.
Such changes have also led to modifications inthe system at JICA, which provides most of the
training programs for KITA. The training courses are
now being reviewed to make implementation more
efficient and to make the contents and compositionof the programs more substantial in order to
respond to changes in international circumstances.
Meanwhile, City of Kitakyushu has promoted
forward-looking initiatives in addressing environmental
issues, such as the development of the Environmental
Model City, the Green Asia International StrategicComprehensive Special Zone, and the Kitakyushu
Asian Center for Low Carbon Society. Various
projects have been implemented by them to provide
good models in Japan and around the world in thisfield.
As stated above, the circumstances around KITA
will be undergoing great change, including its
impending transition to a public interest incorporated
foundation. Even so, KITA has continued its

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contribution to the progress of developing countries
to meet the demands of the times and also promoted
the activities corresponding to the environmental
policies of City of Kitakyushu. However, the reform of
KITA, as a thirty-one-year-old organization, is apressing concern, in order to meet transforming
circumstances.
Given these conditions, we set up the following
business policies last year.
1) Maintaining its founding principles and utilizing
the geographical advantage of Kitakyushu
2) Establishing internal cooperation among thedivisions of KITA
3) Strengthening the partnership with City of
Kitakyushu as well as JICA
4) Surveying and finding overseas needs andestablishing KITA networks with former participants5) Improving the revenue of KITA and securing
profitability in each division
6) Expanding infrastructure7) Securing transparency and disclosing information
followed by the shift to a public interest
incorporated foundation.
In order to deal with the demands of the times, wewill maintain and strengthen these policies this year.
Based on the founding principles to which we haveadhered since its establishment, KITA will contributeto the development of developing countries byutilizing technology and knowledge accumulated in
Kitakyushu City.
I would like to ask for your continued support andunderstanding. Finally, I wish everyone the best ofluck during this year.

Two Messages from newly-appointed
Directors of KITA

A iming at making JICA/KITA

Training Courses more Attractive
Dr. Masakatsu Ueno

Director of Training Division of KITA

I am Dr. Masakatsu Ueno and took over the post of
the Director of Training Division of KITA in April 1,
2011. We often experience in our daily lives how aninteresting story makes the time pass quickly, while aboring story is painful and make people want to escapeas soon as possible. Whether the story is enjoyable orpainful depends on speaking skills of a speaker, but it
is more important whether the topic meets the needs ofthe listeners.
The most important matter in the training courses is
to make the programs interesting. We at KITA, as thehost for the participants from many countries, aremaking our utmost efforts to understand their needs
fully so we can achieve this goal. To this end, we not
only keep in close contact with JICA, but also share

information among course leaders in charge of the
training programs in order to get information and grasp
the needs of each country.
It is also important to follow up on the current
situation of former participants after their return to theircountries. All course leaders take every opportunity to
exchange information with them via the internet, basedon the valuable relationship established during thetraining courses.
Japan relies on foreign countries for its resources
and markets. We would like to step up our daily efforts
with the full recognition that international contribution is
not only for the sake of our partner countries but also
for the safety and security of Japan as well.

M y Viewpoint as Director ofTechnical Cooperation Division
Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto

Director of Technical Cooperation Division of KITA

I was assigned the director of Technical Cooperation
Division on April 1, 2011.
The roles of our division are as follows:● Possibility investigation concerning technology
transfer to foreign countries● Support to local companies for technical transfer
to foreign countries● Information collection on productivity improvement,
plant maintenance, energy saving and so on● Implementation of training course for foreign
trainees● Intelligence and registration on engineeringexperts
When technical cooperation is implemented, theeconomic and social condition of the partner countries
should be taken into account, at the same time, weshould consider the next three items:

1) Close communization with partner countries
On a business start, we must discuss with othercountry’s person in charge thoroughly, and it isinevitable to grasp the real needs of them.
2) Consistent consciousness of local (Kitakyushu)
companies
Taking the technologies accumulated in the City
into consideration, we must think about thedevelopment of them to overseas. It becomes bothprofit, because quantity of trade of the two sides
increases if technical cooperation succeeds.
3) Fullest possible use of the experience andtechnology cultivated in the City
The technical cooperation division is an expert
engineer group. It is necessary to utilize thistechnology to the maximum. We always gather
information on the local experts.

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Close-up of some KITA training courses
Started a newly-established Course,"Environmental Technology
for Low Carbon Society"
Dr. Masakatsu Ueno, Director of Training Division of KITA
Reducing CO2 emissions is an urgent issue the entire
world should address in order to prevent global warming.
To provide environmental technology of low carbon
emissions, last September we started a new course which
covered: 1) energy conservation, 2) clean power
generation, and 3) administration policies. Elevenadministrators from seven countries (China, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Pakistan and thePhilippines) joined the course to study mainly in
Kitakyushu, but in Kyoto City and Oita Prefecture as well,before returning home in October.
Their main concerns as local administrators ranged
widely from waste disposal issues including the 3Rs* andfinal disposal sites, to urban planning and raisingawareness of residents. They learned much from theexperience and know-how which the Kitakyushu City
possesses. They were deeply impressed with not only theenvironmental technology of Japan but also the strong
ties of trust between the government and residents.
Demand for power has increased to support economic
development in the participants’ countries, yet this could
cause big problems if it directly leads to more CO2

Shoji Yazu, Course Leader of KITA

emissions. So, the programs include in-class lectures on
clean power and a visit to power plants. They showed
great interest in small-scale hydroelectric power
generation utilizing agricultural waterways in Oita (See theupper picture), as this method would be useful not only as
clean power but also to eliminate areas with no electricity
in remote islands and rural areas. When they wereinterviewed by TV reporters in Oita and Kitakyushu, theysaid this course was very informative and meaningful.
*3Rs：Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Plant for small-scale hydroelectric
power generation in Taketa City,
Oita Prefecture: 25 kW of electricity
can be generated by using level
differences of 8m.

Another scene at the plant

Seminar and Field Trip as Japan-Thailand Steel Cooperation Program
Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Technical Adviser of KITA
Seminar and field trip on "Pollution Monitoring System
and Health Check-up System” entrusted by Japan Iron
and Steel Federation (JISF) was conducted from
September 5 to 10, 2011 in Kitakyushu City.
Participants of 19 members from Thailand belong toIron and Steel Institute or Ministry of Industry office or
private enterprise who are interested in environmental
control and occupational health management particularly
in Japanese steel industry.
The interesting items which draw attention most fromlecture and field trip are as follows.
1) Japanese environmental legal system is anappropriate standard and very useful to haveovercome environmental problem.
2) Application of cleaner production (CP) concept is very
useful for environmental control and energy & material
conservation.
3) Kitakyushu Environment Museum and Air Pollution
Monitoring Center are very necessary service in major

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Yasushi Nishino, Course Leader of KITA

cities to play important role in environmental control.
4) Environmental and occupational health management
has been executed smoothly in Yawata Works of
Nippon Steel together with Kyushu Techno Researchand Kyushu Medical Center.
It is promised that they review and consider some ofthem to be realized in each their own city.
Exhibition Room at
Yawata Works of Nippon Steel

Front of Kyushu Medical Centerfor health check-up

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New Course "Solar Power Generation Technology" will start in February 2012
Dr. Takatsugu Ueyama, Course Leader of KITA
This is a newly established two-month course fortechnocrats and planning engineers of power companies,
who play a leading role in countries aiming to introduce
photovoltaic generation on a large scale, and it will start in
February 2012.
In this course, a entirety overview of new energy policies
and the solar power generation technology of Japan isprovided. It includes human resource development ofcompanies installing the power generation systems
because it is essential to increase the number of such
systems. We take up issues related to the stability of thepower system, which is an important matter when
renewable energy is introduced on a large scale. Whencovering this topic, starting with basic technology of thepower system, we explain the concept of the power supply
network system, and the basic idea of whether it is gridconnection or stand-alone. The technology-related subjects
include many practical training classes so participants canunderstand the principles in more detail. The upper picture
shows the equipment used in the course. There are many
opportunities to visit facilities which have actually

introduced the system, as shown in the lower picture.
We have been preparing steadily for the beginning of
the course, which could contribute to solving global-scaleenergy challenges.
Power system simulator at
Waseda University in Tokyo,
which is used for the practicaltraining class in the "Basics ofPower Supply Network Systems"

Mega-solar equipment forpractical experiments in
Kitamori City, Yamanashi
Prefecture: A scheduled visit
includes explanation by adeveloper of this equipment"KAIZEN" class for Automobile Parts Manufacturers in Indonesia
Hiroshi Kitada, Course Leader of KITA
According to the EPA* between Japan and Indonesia
relating to automobile sector, the Japanese government(METI**) agreed to send a specialist to Indonesian
auto-parts manufacturers in order to step up
competitiveness of their productions. Both governments,
however, realized that improvement (KAIZEN) in
production sites can be attained by not only directions
provided from the specialist, but also supports andunderstandings from the management people ofenterprise. METI entrusted JICE*** to receive a KAIZEN
mission from Indonesia and to conduct a 2-week longtraining.
KITA was assigned to be the front half
implementer of this program starting from October 4 in
2011. The mission members were 23 in all, of which 18
from manufacturers, 3 from Ministry of Industry and 2 fromthe relating associations. The curriculum KITA preparedconsisted of three parts, i.e. classroom lectures on how topromote KAIZEN, 1 day-long exercise to promote KAIZEN
and on-site review of KAIZEN at 4 different auto-parts
companies. All programs were successfully completed
under the full cooperation from TOYOTA Motors Kyushu
Inc. and its group companies and the mission moved to

Eiji Wada, Technical Adviser of KITA

Osaka for their latter half curriculum and left for thecountry on Oct 13.
*EPA：Economic Partnership Agreement**METI：Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry***JICE：Japan International Cooperation Center

KAIZEN Training at theTraining Center of
TOYOTA Motors Kyushu

Closing Classroom Lecture of
KAIZEN done by Mr.Amezawa,
Former VP of TOYOTA Motors
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Aiming at an Fruitful Training Course !!
〜 Let’s Realize the Joy of Changing Oneself !! 〜Yoshio Miki, Course Leader of KITA
I am in charge of two training courses for JICA, "Job
Training Coordinated with Industry" and the "Promotion of
Local Industries and SMEs." As a training principle, I wantto take advantage of each precious encounter withparticipants to help raise their awareness so they can takeaction based on the 3C motto, that is, “to make Change a
Chance by taking on the Challenges.” In this way, theycan experience the joy of changing oneself.
In order to change ways of thinking, the “Breakthroughthinking” method is used to explore the essence of things,
or one’s purposes, and develop more creative thinking. In
the process of recognition, the “Coaching” training
enables participants to master a “Personal Growth
Program”. Then, through on-site visits, they will find clues
to put what they learn into practical action.
In particular, the courses include practical examples
such as the following. In the former course, on-site studies
helped participants recognize new perspectives such asindustry-academia-government partnerships and a “DualSystem* ”, which led to action plans. In the latter course,

they raised awareness concerning comprehensive
participation by management, activities to promote local
industries, and human resources development.
We received encouraging feedback from former
participants, who felt that the courses were very
impressive and inspiring. After returning to their homecountries, they have moved into action with strong
motivation as energy for action.
*Dual System : a human resources development system
which combines vocational education and training

Visit to the Polytechnic Center Yahata
in the course on job training coordinatedwith industry

Breakthrough thinking workshop in thecourse on the Promotion of Local
Industries and SMEs

Follow-ups on 5S* Activities Training Program for Vocational Training
Institutes in Malaysia: Steady Progress Implementing Action Plans
Syunji Rikimaru, Course Leader of KITA
The education at Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs**)in Malaysia should actually meet corporate needs, and theemployment rate of the graduates from VTIs should
increase. In response to these missions, the agency incharge, the Manpower Department, decided to introduce
5S activities into the VTIs' curriculum and asked JICA for
its support.
JICA/KITA accepted 8 participants from 5S*-model VTIs
for one month two years ago to help them work as on-site
supervisors in their companies. We provided a training
course including programs on IE*** and QC**** as themethods for improving 5S activities and the quality of
products, as well as visits to 4 Japanese companies toobserve 5S in practice. As the culmination to the course,
they came up with a three-year plan for their action plans(APs).
In response to the request from JICA for follow-ups on
the current status of participants, I visited Malaysia.
Before meeting with former participants, I wondered if the
5S activities in each VTI had lost their momentum.
However, I recognized my concerns were unfounded after

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direct discussion with everyone. As shown in the pictures
below, I was pleased to see their APs have made steadyprogress.
The next challenge is to develop the activities at 8
model VTIs for the remaining institutes.
*5S：SEIRI (Clearing)，SEITON (Organizing)，SEISO (Cleaning)，
SEIKETSU (Standardizing)，SHITSUKE(Training & Discipline)**VTIs：There are 27 VTIs in Malaysia, eight of which aredesignated as 5S model schools in our training course.
There is a plan to increase the total to 30 in the near future.
***IE：Industrial Engineering****QC：Quality Control

Introductory explanation and PR
concerning 5S activities at a model VTI

One example of how 5S activities proved
effective for improvement at a model VTINews&ReportCompleted Courses "A & B on CP through Production Maintenance"
Takashi Ishikawa, Course Leader of KITA
The above-mentioned courses for FY2010 werecompleted last spring, aiming to bring up managers who
could realize cleaner production by means ofimprovement of maintenance and management ofequipment. Course A, from August 2010 to November
2010, had 7 participants from 6 countries, while Course B,
from January 2011 to April 2011, had 5 participants from 2
countries. Since I have taken over this course sevenyears ago，56 participants from 23 countries completed
the course and returned their home countries. Currently,
means of production have shifted from manpower toequipment. But it is not too much to say that maintenancemanagement is the key not only to environmental
conservation, productivity, and energy efficiency but also
to profitability and safety.
Therefore, I am pleased to have received emails fromformer participants, saying that they have been making
every effort to educate staff in their organizations andimplement their action plans after their return, based onwhat they learned and experienced in Japan. It makes me
more than happy as a course leader.
During the term of Course A, a mine accident occurredin Chile, the home country of one of the participants, andHarumi Ono, Assistant Course Leader of KITA

during Course B, we saw the Great East Japan
Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
accident. All the participants shared their concerns as if
the accidents or disasters had happened in their own
countries and they provided us all with encouragement. I
gained the strong feeling that as individuals, everyone
around the world can be friends, irrespective of religion orpolitical systems.
On-site training of Course A:
Centering of a pump at SANKYU
Research & Create Co., Ltd.

Plant visit of Course B: Shin-Kokura
Thermal Plant of Kyushu ElectricPower Company, Inc.

Completed Course "Industrial Pollution Control Management for Middle Eastern Countries"
Jyunji Kawasaki, Course Leader of KITA
This course for administrators in charge of industrial
environment in the Middle East first started in October
2006, and completed its 5th term in April 2011. During thistime, 30 participants from 9 countries such as Egypt, Iraq
and Turkey came to Japan to learn about its experiencesin improving the environment and its pollution control
technology.
Japan has achieved a dramatic economic development
since the 1950s, but health hazards such as Minamata
disease and Yokkaichi asthma also resulted. In particular,
Kitakyushu City, a main venue of this course, was one of
the areas most affected by pollution in Japan. The
Kitakyushu government, universities and private companies
worked hard together to overcome the problems. Now it has
been designated as Environmental Model City.
The participants in this course have utilized theknowledge and technology that they obtained while in the
Kitakyushu region to improve the environment in theirrespective countries. Based on the results of training, they
have engaged actively in solving the challenges of theirtasks and R&D, such as recovery of harmful chromic acidgenerated from tanning factories, effective use of harmfulwaste in the automobile industry, and the shifting of fuelfrom heavy oil to LNG.
Practical training in water
quality monitoring at Dokai Bay
in Kitakyushu City

Learning about Japanese culture
and customs at a shrine in Kyoto
during their study tour

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Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Involvement in Water Environment Improvement Training
Courses for
Susumu Kubo
Kunming City, China
Assistant Course Leader of KITA
Saburo Tsuruta, KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
Under the instruction of Kitakyushu City, KITA had
accepted the training for the Kunming Municipal
Construction and Management Bureau for North Bank
Water Environment Treatment Project of Dianchi Lake*and we had already completed 6 training courses. In
2010 the 7th and 8th training courses were conducted.
In the 7th training course, there were six participants led
by the group leader, Mr. Li Bin, Executive Deputy Directorof the previously-mentioned organization. Under thetheme of "Environmental education and its facilities", they
visited the East Sewage Treatment Plant, Environmental
Museum of Water and Environment Museum in
Kitakyushu, Sewerage Exhibit Hall "Rainbow" in Tokyo,
Lake Biwa Museum, etc. to study what the environmental
education facilities should be and how to promote
environmental education.
In the 8th training course, there were six participants led
by Mr. Zhao Bin, Director of the Kunming Municipal
People’s Government Administration Office. Under thetheme of "Present condition of sewage sludge treatment
and its technologies", they learned how to mix the sewage
sludge for combustion and how to utilize it as a raw

material of cement in Kitakyushu, carbonized fuel inTokyo, how to convert it to slag in Shiga prefecture, etc.
The first agreement had completed after implementing
8 training courses of total 65 participants. And we
concluded another agreement to conduct 4 more training
courses to receive 24 participants.
*Dianchi Lake : It is the 6th biggest fresh water lake in China,
located in Kunming City.
At the 7th training course,
exhibition hall of the East
Sewage Treatment Plant
in Kitakyushu CityAt the 8th training course,
sewage sludge slag making
facility in the Konan-chubu
Wastewater Treatment plantin Shiga Prefecture

The Project on Development of New Biodiesel Synthesis in Thailand
Masaya Nagaishi, KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
KITA has involved in the project, "Developing the new
synthesis method of biodiesel", which is implemented by
the University of Kitakyushu and Chulalongkorn University
with the collaboration of Kitakyushu Foundation for the
Advancement of Industry Science and Technology (FAIS),
Registered Non-Profit Organization Asia SEED*, andNippon Institute of Technology.
It is one of thecollaborative projects by Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) and Japan Science and Technology
Agency (JST) to spread the new biodiesel in Thailand,
which is manufactured in the catalytic method developedby the University of Kitakyushu and can be used as 100%light oil. (The biodiesel manufactured in the mainstream
conventional method can mix with light oil only byapprox.10 %.)In the project, KITA is in charge of field survey andevaluation on the collection/transportation system for usedcooking oil in Thailand, which can be used as a raw
material of biodiesel. On 31st May last year, we held a

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kick-off meeting (Joint Coordinating Committee : JCC) forthe people concerned in Bangkok, Thailand, and thememorandum was
exchangedFujimoto
between JICA and
Dr. Ken-ichi
Chulalongkorn University.
We
will
Director-general of conduct
KITA, a fieldresearch on the existingcollection
system of cooking
Productivity
cooperation
Centeroil
waste in cities and local areas in Thailand to compare itwith the situation in Japan.
*Asia SEED：Asia Science and Education for Economic
Development

JCC in Bangkok

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Study on Possibility of technological Transfer for Waste Management to India
Meiji Sato, Technical Adviser of KITA (Environmental Solution Center, Kyushu Techno Research, Inc.)
Kitakyushu City and United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) took place "theseminar for Eco-town Managers (SETM)" together on
April in 2010. For the follow up activities of SETM,"Strategic cultivation project of Asian area environmental
business coordinators" was realized by Kitakyushu City.
The selected country was India. Requested by
Kitakyushu City I visited to Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai
from January 17th to 22nd and investigated especially on
needs for plastics recycling. The domestic waste
produced every day is collected in large metal box andshipped to dumping sites near the city. The waste
produced from shopping sites is delivered collection sites
in the shopping site. Then, useful resources are picked byhands and other waste is delivered to dumping sites.
Furthermore, even in dumping sites remain useful
resources are picked by hands.
On plastic recycling, how to separate polyvinyl chloride
and select single plastic from mixed plastics are the mostessential themes.
In India, management systems for harmful industrial

waste are well-equipped by private sectors supported bypublic sectors. Therefore, appropriate management
system for domestic wastes is more important and thecooperation by Kitakyushu is highly appreciated.
A big metallic
waste box in Delhi

Appearance of waste
in the a big metallic
waste box in Delhi

Promote Efficient Waste Management System in Malaysia
Mitsuyo Nakatsu, KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
I had participated the field research in Malaysia as apart of the JICA Partnership Program "Promote Efficient
Waste Management System in Malaysia" (two-year
program from the fiscal year 2011 to 2012) which isorganized by Kitakyushu City. The first visit was from July
17 to 23 in 2011 for aiming at strengthening therelationship with the local counterpart, PPSPPA* andconducting the field survey before stating the project. At
the second visit, which was held from Sep. 18 to 24 in
2011, I accompanied some experts on solid waste
administration, analysis of waste composition, and organic
waste composting technology. We had implemented thefield survey to understand and analyze the present
condition and conducted seminars to offer somesuggestions. On the last day of our visit, we made thepresentation on our activities and confirmed the future
directions of the project at the JICA Malaysia office andthe head office of PPSPPA in Kuala Lumpur.
PPSPPA staffs and participants of the seminar werevery active and positive by taking notes and asking manyquestions and we felt their high interest in waste
management. Based on our experiences in Kitakyushu

City, we would like to strengthen our supporting system tomake the waste management in Malaysia more efficient.
*PPSPPA : Perbadanan Pengurusan Sisa Pepejal
Pembersihan Awam
(translated into English : Solid Waste andPublic Cleansing Management Corporation)
Participants makeseed compost

Landfill site ofMalacca City

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The Progress in the Establishment of a Solid Waste Management Method
in Metro Cebu, Philippines
Masaya Nagaishi, KITA Environmental Cooperation Center
Based on the successful example of the community
based waste management model in Surabaya City,
Indonesia, KITA has attempted to establish the waste
management system of garbage composting by receiving
the grant from the Japan Fund for Global Environment.
On February 15 in 2011, a technical seminar was
conducted for people of universities and NGOs* to explain
the academic theory on the Takakura composting method,which is the core of the composting system for local
model communities.
Two local papers reported the article on the seminar, inwhich more than 50 people from 19 different organizations
had participated. We expect further follow-up activities tothe communities by the universities and NGOs which took
part in the seminar.
Furthermore Cebu City had offered 2,300 composting
containers for domestic garbage to the communities(barangay) in the city area and established the training
system for instructors who will educate the people about
composing and the purchasing system for the compost
made by the communities.

Attendees from industries were interested in thedisposal method of garbage generated in factories.
And the first barangay composting center wasconstructed in Cebu City, which will play a key role ofgarbage composting and recycling of recyclable waste.
We expect further promotion of waste volume reduction
and recycling.
*NGOs：NonGovernmental Organizations
Seminar on composting

The first barangay composting
center of Takakura method in
Cebu City

A Networking Seminar on "KitaQ System" Composting in Asia
Misuzu Morimoto, KITA Environmental Cooperation CenterWith the collaboration of JICA, Kitakyushu City, KITA
and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES),
a workshop on the "KitaQ system" garbage composting
was organized from June 29 to July 1 in 2011, to discuss
the solid waste management, which is one of the mostserious problems in Asian cities.
The participants were twelve people from 10 different
cities of 4 countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines andThailand. It is a community participation type waste
management of the Takakura composting method doneby the partnership of citizens, NPOs*, administration, etc.
and it is also a comprehensive work to cover various fields
such as segregation of recyclable waste, environmental
education, hygiene control, and greening activities.
The workshop was very productive and meaningful. By
following the past achievements in Surabaya, Indonesia,
in which they had succeeded 20% reduction of waste
generation volume by the "KitaQ system", the participants
had discussed promotional factors and inhibiting factors infour fields（：technical and operational, social mobilizationand organizational, financial and marketing, institutional

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and societal）to clarify each city’s present situation andissues. Then they developed proposed strategies.
I hope that the "KitaQ system" will be widely introduced
to all Asian countries for attaining a sustainable society by
locally driven movement.
* NPOs：NonProfit Organizations
Participants take practiceat the seminar for community

Participants make acourtesy call on Mayor
Kenji Kitahashi,
City of Kitakyushu

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Toward creating Business Relation between Kitakyushu and Vietnam
Michinobu Saito, Technical Adviser of KITA
Kitakyushu City, according to the friendship andcooperation agreement with Hai Phong City in Vietnam, is
assisting to create a new business relation between
companies in a metal processing sector in Kitakyushu andin Hai Phong, by utilizing the RIT* program operated by
JETRO**.
KITA was requested to send 2 specialists to Hai Phonglast summer to conduct a survey of potential companies tocreate relations from technical viewpoints. Kitakyushu
City, last year, expanded the targeted business sector andlocation to make a relation creation easier up to both
metal processing and machinery parts sectors in not only
Hai Phong but also Hanoi. The preliminary mission
including a KITA’s specialist visited again in July andfound out 10-15 candidates from both cities in order foreach company of Kitakyushu, when visiting in September,to promote business talks for a possibility of creating abusiness relation.
The official mission of 9 companies together with
JETRO, Kitakyushu City and KITA was dispatched to twocities in Vietnam from September 13 to 17 and vigorous
business talks were individually conducted for mutual

Eiji Wada, Technical Adviser of KITA

understandings in each city resulting in 3-4 constructive
discussions to develop a new business relationship in thenear future. As a next stage of RIT program, anotherbusiness talk session is scheduled to be held in
Kitakyushu by inviting a couple of companies from Hai
Phong and Hanoi.
KITA will continuously play a role of assisting thisprogram toward creating a win-win relationship between
companies in both areas.
*RIT : Regional Industry Tie-up**JETRO : Japan External Trade Organization

Company to Company
Business Talks Held in Hai Phong

Kitakyushu Booth at the 4th Vietnam-Japan
Exhibition on Supporting Industries in Hanoi

Conclusion of Cooperation Agreement with Hai Phong City, Vietnam
about Person-to-Person and Technology Exchange
Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto, Director of Technical Cooperation Division of KITA
"A factory management capability improvement
program to the Hai Phong City manufacturing industry"
was started in the 2011 fiscal year as grass-root businessactivities of JICA. The final aim of this program is to givecompetitiveness to the manufacturing industry in Hai
Phong City, and lets the business with the Kitakyushu
company spread and is to develop the economy of bothcities. KITA and Hai Phong Industrial Vocational College(HPIVC) concluded "the mutual cooperation agreement"on April 14 to promote this program.
This program consists of two pillars:
The first pillar is production management training
program. The last upbringing target is students, but we
performed the education for the professors of HPIVC in
August in order to carry out the education to students
effectively. After return home, the professors who
received the training at KIC* are planning to makecurriculum for the students. According their plan, thenumber of the target students is 700 and school hours are
45 hours.

The second pillar is to perform instruction about theplant engineering to manufacturing industry of Hai Phong
City. We will dispatch experts to Hai Phong City two times
a year and installed a consultation window in HPIVC. As
of the middle of October, the number of consultant
reached 19 cases. We will visit Hai Phong City in the next
February and instruct them.
*KIC : Kyushu International Center (JICA kyushu)

Scenery of the ribbon-cutting
ceremony(Japanese : 2, Vietnamese: 3)

The signing ceremonyof the agreement(Right : Principal of HPIVC, Left : Writer)

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Project for Developing Environmental Human Resources in Hai Phong,VietnamHisao Nakamura, Former position：KITA Environmental Cooperation Center (Present position：Environment Bureau, City of Kitakyushu)
This project had been implemented for two years in thefiscal years 2009 and 2010 as a JICA grassroots technicalcooperation project for aiming at capacity building ofgovernment officers in Hai Phong City by dispatchingexperts and receiving participants to training programs,
and promotion of energy/resource savings by introducing
Cleaner Production (CP) technology.
In the fiscal year 2009, we had dispatched experts to
conduct the field survey. At the same time we havereceived participants from industries and Hai Phong
Industry and Trade Department to the training program on
administrative policies and measures by companies in
Kitakyushu City.
In the fiscal year 2010, which is the last year of the
project, we dispatched experts three times. And with thecollaboration of the Hai Phong Energy Conservation and
Cleaner Production Center, we had offered various
advices on how to establish the system of monitoring andguidance to local industries and conducted energy saving
diagnosis in two model companies (shipbuilding company
and steel making company) to make some suggestions

for improvement. On our last visit in March, we held aseminar to make a presentation on the project
achievement. Despite the heavy rain, about 190 people
from about 100 local small and medium-sized enterprises
and administration offices in Hai Phong City had
participated in the seminar.
We hope that the achievement of the project will
promote the energy/resource savings in Hai Phong City.
After the seminar(Commemorative photo with
Mr. Phuong, Director of Hai Phong
Industry and Trade Department,
and Mr. Thanh, Director of Hai Phong
Energy Conservation Center)

Presentation by KITA
(the writer) at the seminar

Technology Forum in Taiwan helped to make amicable Relations
Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Technical Adviser of KITA
Forum on steel-related technology took place at Taipei
and Kaohsiung in February, 2011 entrusted by FAIS* andMETI**. The mission made up by 10 participants from
Kitakyushu consists of 5 steel-related companies,
Kitakyushu Foreign Trade Association, FAIS (Organizer),
Trade Promotion Division of Kitakyushu City (Secretary)
and KITA had technical exchange at both cities in Taiwan.
Participants from Taiwanese side were around 30 persons
at each Forum and had fruitful discussion at each small
expertise group.
The subjects discussed were CPC*** roll, Induction
heating system for stress relief, Brown gas, Advanced bag
filter, Tublar conveyor and Improved copper-made parts.
Both parties agreed to promote close relationship forexchanging technology of each side for which Kitakyushu
Foreign Trade Association concluded "the friendship &cooperation agreement" with Economic Development
Bureau, Kaohsiung. Metal Research Center and Institutefor Information Industry expressed posture to cooperatewith and came to Kitakyushu in June, 2011 to exchange
opinions about hi-tech modernized steel plant.

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It is continued to have such an opportunity and afterthat time Kitakyushu mission was dispatched in
December.
*FAIS : Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement ofIndustry, Science and Technology**METI : Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry***CPC : Continuous Pouring Cladding Process
Leader of Mission, Mr.Nakao of
Kitakyushu Foreign Trade Association
made opening speech

Mission members withexecutives of Metal ResearchCenter in KaohsiungNews&Report

Kenzo Matsumoto

Holding Technology Forum for Steel Industry in IndonesiaVice President of KITA
Kazuya Kudou, Vice President of KITA
In cooperation with Kitakyushu City, Technology Forum"Seminar and Separated Discussion with Krakatau Steel,Indonesia" was held from February 22 to 24 in 2011, as aproject entrusted by FAIS* and METI**.
In the Forum, six Kitakyushu companies dealing insteel-related equipment and operational technology madepresentations on eight case studies about technology.
With approximately 100 participants from the Indonesianside, it resulted in a large-scale forum. Many engineers of
Krakatau Steel also joined the technology sessions, so
further technology transfer can be expected to be
developed in the future. Krakatau Steel is the largest
government-owned integrated steel plant equipped with
DRI*** and EAF****. However, due to the shortage of ironresources, it produced only 2.2 to 2.4 million tons of crude
steel annually while its official capacity is 3.2 million tons
per year. It is evident that there is plenty of potential forincreasing final products with simple remodeling or
improvement of its maintenance methods, if enough crude
steel is supplied.
Therefore, Krakatau Steel, which wants to dramaticallyNobuyoshi Tanaka, Technical Adviser of KITA

increase its production, has good possibility for production
by transferring technology from Kitakyushu.
*FAIS : Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement ofIndustry, Science and Technology**METI : Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry***DRI : Direct Reduced Iron Process****EAF : Electric Arc Furnace
Mission members at field trip
to Krakatau Steel during Forum

Overview of the production lineof steel bars at Krakatau Steel

Progress of Partnership Projects between Kitakyushu and Ural, Russia
Kazuya Kudou, Vice President of KITA
Since the conclusion of "the economic partnershipagreement" with Chalyabinsk in June 2010, the industrial
exchanges between Kitakyushu City and Ural, Russia
have been promoted by companies in Kitakyushu, which
include technical cooperation with Nizhny Tagil Iron &Steel Works (NTMK) through Mashprom Corporation in
Yekaterinburg.
The progress of projects being attempted is as follows.
1) Continuous casting molds of Mishima Kosan Co., Ltd. :On trial at Magnitogarsk Steel Works (MMK) undernegotiation in addition to another trial at NTMK
2) Blast furnace tuyeres of Tobata Seisakusho Co., Ltd. :On trial at NTMK
3) CPC rolls of Fujico Co., Ltd .: On trial at MMK4) Monolithic refractory of TAIKO REFRACTORIES CO.,LTD. : On trial at West Siberian Iron & Steel Plant(ZSMK) of Evraz Group
5) Inverters of Yaskawa Electric Corporation : Afterdelivery to Mechel Group, the trial is scheduled tolaunch in January 2012
These results show that the technology and products ofcompanies in Kitakyushu have finally been put to use in
on-site trials in Russia based on Partnership Agreement
after five years of support by KITA. The report titled“Expectations for Kitakyushu” at the request of
Chalyabinsk Province has been completed. The
delegation headed by its governor is scheduled to visit
Kitakyushu at the beginning of 2012.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony of
the Economic Partnership
Agreement at the International
Industrial Forum

Question-answer session
after the presentation
at the Forum

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Environmental Education by using the Bioindicator of Aquatic Organisms in Sri Lanka
Yoshitaka Murakami, Former position：KITA Environmental Cooperation Center (Present position：Industry and Economics Bureau, City of Kitakyushu)
In Sri Lanka there are some concerns about worseningof hygienic conditions because river water has beenpolluted due to domestic wastewater, dumping of
garbage, insufficient sewage treatment system, etc. In
Japan, as one of the environmental education tools toheighten people’s awareness, we utilize the bioindicator,
the relationship between the degree of pollution andaquatic organisms living in river water. In Sri Lanka
however this approach is not widely introduced.
To cope with the situation, by receiving the grant from theJapan Trust for Global Environment (charitable trust)* in
the fiscal years 2009 and 2010, we had preparedenvironmental education materials written in English,
Sinhalese and Tamil with the collaboration of Central
Environmental Authority Ministry of Environment, Universityof Colombo and Kitakyushu City Environmental
Preservation Association. And we had implemented
environmental education programs for students andteachers in two areas of the Western Province in Sri Lanka.

We hope that the environmental education method to
use the bioindicator of aquatic organisms will be
propagated countrywide to heighten the awareness ofwater quality improvement.
*The Japan Trust for Global Environment (charitable trust) : thefund established by the recognition of Ministry of theEnvironment in July, 1991, for aiming at providing the grant toprojects which contribute toward the global environmental
conservation and are conducted by NGOs, etc with the money
donated by private sectors.

Students observe aquatic organisms
Picture book for field survey (in Sinhalese)

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International friendship promotion
International Exchange in My Family
Yoshiki & Setsuko Ishida, Host Family Member, Resident in Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu City
Seven years have already passed since we joined thehome visit program. As soon as I am asked to host avisitor, I always begin to study the history, politics andculture of his/her country. Several years ago, I hosted aparticipant from Costa Rica. I was surprised to learn that
1) instead of organizing military forces, it has shifted thebudget allocation from the military to education and 2)
natural energy such as hydro-wind-geothermal power
accounts for more than 90% of its energy resources. Our
visitor was a good tennis player and I enjoyed several
games with him. A short time later, I hosted a participantfrom Columbia, with whom I also enjoyed tennis.
During the New Year period last year, my wife and I
visited four former participants in both countries to enjoy
international friendship tennis games. We also visited asmall-scale hydropower station and a furniture workshop
which uses only hydro power in the process ofmanufacturing its products. We had a meaningful journey

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as if we also had been participants in a training course,
especially when we saw their love of nature and their
spiritually rich lives.
In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami
and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident last
March, I received emails of sympathy from many countries.
In return, I send them monthly reports on the current situationof affected areas and the radioactive damage in Japan. In
such ways, my family’s international exchanges still continue.

Enjoying tennis with a former
participant and his son in
Columbia in January 2011

Wearing costumes of warriors and acourt lady at the Chofu Mori Residencein Shimonoseki City in November 2009

KITA training courses in FY2011
as of November 30, 2011
JICA
Group training

Type

No

Title of training course

Environment management

4

5

6

7

JICA
Area-focused training
2011
8
9

10

11

12

JICA
Country-focused training

1

2

2012
3
4

5

KITA
Individual training

6

Course Leader＊

J.Kawasaki(Tsukamoto)

10
10
6

1

Industrial pollution control management

2

Industrial wastewater treatment technique (A)Arakawa3(Vietnam) Industrial wastewater treatment technique (B)Arakawa4

Domestic wastewater treatment technique

Yonezawa

85(Southwest Asia) Citizen-participation-type Solid waste management

Haraguchi

106(Southeastern Europe) Promotion of Cleaner Production

Nishino10

7

Operation & maintenance of sewerage system and waste water treatment technique

Sueta

10

8

Waste management technique (A)109Waste management technique (B)Kawasaki(Tsukamoto)

10

Kawai

8

(Vietnam) Waste management technique (C)K.Kido10

11

Air pollution source management

A.Kido712(China) Environmental protection of business enterprise & promotion of cooperation

K.Kido15

13(Vietnam) Management of sewerage system

Yazu

10

14

Environmental technology for low carbon society

10

15(Korea) Environmental and energy-saving operations for SME business manager

16(Thailand) Steel cooperation program on pollution monitoring system

Yazu(Ueno)Ishii
Wada
NishinoTanakaProduction technology , Plant engineering and CP
1(South America) Practical production management23

CP through production maintenance (A),(B)4Practical technique of mechatronics & robot

5(Central and South America) CP in process industries

6(Mercosur) Energy conservation techniques

78(Central and South America) Dissemination of productivity improvement activity (A),(B)9Practical business management for productivity enhancement (B)10(India) Energy conservation techniques(1)11(India) Energy conservation techniques(2)12(India) Energy conservation techniques for SME

13

Energy conservation technology & equipment diagnosis

14

Design of policy for energy conservation (B)15Solar power generation technology (B)

16
17

15
20

T.Miyamoto(Date)
Ishikawa
(Ono)

7/9

Taniguchi

9

Abe(Fukumori)Kawaguchi(Ueyama)
K.Kawasaki
Rikimaru(Miyamoto)Ueyama(Kawaguchi)
Ueyama(Tanaka)Tanaka(Ueyama)
Ueyama(Tanaka)
Kawaguchi(Ueyama)

8

6
8
8/9
10
15
15
8
14
8

Ueyama16(Vietnam) Practical business management for productivity improvement activity

Miyamoto

10

Facility maintenance management focused on non-destructive inspection for lifeline utilities

Toyama8

18(Indonesia) KAIZEN Mission Project

Kitada23

19(Haiphhong City, Vietnam) Betterment of business management for manufacturing industry

Fujimoto

5

Kawai

5

Promoting of Recycling-based Society
1

Establishment of sound material cycle society

2(ASEAN・India) Waste & 3Rs management (programmed by Fukuoka Prefecture)

3(ASEAN・India) Aquatic environmental management (programmed by Fukuoka Prefecture)

Job training, Local revitalization and Others

4

5

6

2010
7
8
9

10

11

12

1

2

2011
3
4

Haraguchi(A.Miyamoto)
Sueta(A.Miyamoto)
5

4
4

6

1

(Centra America) Job training coordinated with industry (A)

Miki

9

2

(South America) Job training coordinated with industry (B)

Miki

9

3

Industrial health and preventive care for working people

Takahashi

7

4

Food sanitation administration

Terasaki

10

5(Central and South America) Promotion of local industries and SMEs

6

Enhancement of occupational accident prevention and safety management

7

Training of Japanese descent Training to economically develop the area

Miki

16

Ueyama(Aoki )

6

Miki

6

Tsuruta

6

HaradaNakatsu

4

Human Resource Development for Asia
1
2

Sewerage management technique for Kunming
CLAIR participant training＊ participants quota(as of November 30, 2011)● The detail of the course & annual schedule can be seen in KITA's Web site in English ( http://www.kita.or.jp/ )KITA NEWS No.12 15

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The New "Aquatic Environmental Management Course" Started Last October for
the Fukuoka International Environmental Management Program

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Ayano Miyamoto, Course Leader of KITA

Hajime Sueta, Course Leader of KITA

very year since 2006, Fukuoka Prefecture and KITA have invited leading administrators in charge of environmental
policies in Asian countries to provide environmental management programs. We established a new course on
management of water quality conservation, which was held for two weeks last October and November, in which four
administrators related to water environment, two from Thailand and two from Vietnam participated.
This course covers 1) water quality conservation policies, 2) water purification/drainage technology, and 3) environmental
education, and aims at 4) promoting mutual understanding and networking.
In the first area, the participants studied environmental policies in Japan, particularly
those in Fukuoka Prefecture. In the second area, they visited water purification plants,
wastewater treatment plants and plant sewerage facilities of a private company inFukuoka to learn about treatment technology and the operation and management at eachfacility.
For studying civic education and activities related to the environment, they visited an
Field study at Murasaki River withelementary school to see students engaged in clean-ups of rivers and breeding of fireflies. Fish Club of the high school in Kitakyushu
They also did field study with Fish Club of the high school, only one club in Japan, which
contributes to environmental preservation through researching aquatic creatures.
Fukuoka Prefecture has also provided participants with opportunities for sharing
information with eco-related companies in order to promote friendship and mutual
development with their countries.
We hope that this course, although it was short, will continue to contribute to wider
networks of international exchange for the sake of improving the environment throughout
Group picture at Fukuoka
Asia.
Prefectural Government Building

Publishing "Implementation Reports from JICA Former Participants"〜 They have actively engaged in their Projects Utilizing JICA/KITA Training Programs 〜In the last fiscal year, the 31st anniversary of the foundation of KITA, the "Implementation Reports from JICA Former
Participants" were published in Japanese. In response to our requests that participants report how they have
implemented what they learned from the programs after returning to their countries, we received
41 reports from 21 countries.
The reports were related to activities in various fields, such as environmental pollution
countermeasures, production engineering and developing a society with an environmentallysound material cycle. All of the reports describe the current status of former participants who
have actively engaged in invaluable activities for their organizations and nations, throughwhich we recognized that our training programs have been very useful for them.
Given these achievements, with confidence and courage we are determined to facilitate ourefforts to provide even more enriched training programs to participants in the future.
Please access http://www.kita.or.jp/pdf/print_activity_110531.pdf to read theFront cover of the reports(41 pages, A4-size booklet)
reports on KITA’s website in Japanese.

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NEWS
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA ; kaita)
January 2012

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