NEWS
Kitakyushu
International
Techno-cooperative
Association

No.5
2007
OctoberContents
1 Invited lecturer from Bangladesh at KITA/JICA
2 Message from President of KITA
3 The delightful news from the former participants
Mexico, China, Philippines, Thailand
4 Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
India, Vietnam, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea
5 International friendship promotion
6 Present situation of KITA training course
International training course enforcement plan in 2007
Number of overseas participants received by KITA
7 Other news (environmental cooperation) and information

Mr. Mohammad (center of front row and left photo), a former participant who was invited as a lecturer to JICA Kyushu together
with participants of this year
Mr. Mohammad (he completed the KITA/JICA training course on Plant Maintenance Engineering in 1998) was invited in Marchas a lecturer from Bangladesh. Mr. Mohammad implemented the Total Productive Maintenance method after returning home,and has been making significant contributions to his workplace. His achievement was introduced to the current participants(13 members from 6 different nations).
Kenzo Matsumoto, Vice President of KITA

Message from President of KITA

International Contributions of KITA
Training Programs for Global Environment

This year, KITA marked its 28th anniversary,
established in 1980. The purpose of KITA's
establishment was to "make contributions todeveloping countries by transplanting industrial
technologies that have been accumulated in
Kitakyushu over the years". This objective was
supported by administrations, enterprises and the
majority of citizens in Kitakyushu.
KITA's activities are based on projects organized by
JICA, focusing on training of human resources indeveloping countries. The number of participantsreceived so far has reached 4438 people from 121
different countries. Participants are trained to acquire
technology for sustainable industrial development
through cleaner production, maximally utilizing plant
management technology, industrial environment
protection technology and energy conservation
technology. Furthermore, based on the 3Rs concept(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), KITA is exploring andoffering training programs focusing on air, water andwaste management.
Incorporating plant visits and site training into thecurriculum, KITA training programs have been highly
evaluated for being comprehensible and attentive. We
have received some reports from former participants
after they have returned home, informing us that they
are playing important roles in and making great
contributions to their administrations and corporations.
Industrial development over the last 100 years has
drastically improved convenience of life for humankind,but, on the other hand, it has destroyed the global
environment at the largest scale and fastest speed
human beings have ever experienced, consequently
caused global warming. Our one and only one precious
earth is now facing the danger of devastation.

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Japanese Prime Minister Abe proposed a 50%
reduction of green house gas by 2050 at the
Heiligendamm Summit in Germany held June, 2007
and his proposal got consent of the participating
nations. This target level of reduction cannot be
achieved by a single nation or continent, therefore
actions on a global scale are indispensable.
The important role for KITA is to make aninternational contribution to global environment
protection by sharing the experience that Japan has
had in the last 100 years, which includes industrial
development and accompanying environmental
pollution, and subsequently overcoming many pollution
problems. KITA is awaiting future participants from allover the world to join in our training courses.

Dr. Takuo Kohno

at closing ceremony of KITA/JICA training course

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The delightful news from the former participants
Vigorous Activities of Former Participants by Application of JICA
Training Results (CIDESI in Mexico)
The Nondestructive Inspection Technique course,
launched in 1994 through in cooperation with JICA
Kyushu, has been held 14 times so far, and trained 112
participants from 24 different countries. The features ofthis course include the theories and practical methods ofvarious types of nondestructive inspection techniques andactual site training. Furthermore, it aims to help
participants acquire the ASNT Level Ⅱ Certificate (Level
Ⅱ of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing) for
ultrasonic testing, which has the highest applicability indeveloping countries. This article introduces a successstory of former participants of this course from a Mexican
administrative institute, the Center of Engineering andIndustrial Development (CIDESI).
From this Center, four officers, including Mr. Nunez
Alcocer Jose (General Chief of the NDI Laboratory at theCenter) and Mr. Chaparro Gonzalez Joel (Director of theMaterial Technology Division at the Center) participated in
the 1st year and 4th year of the training course
respectively. After returning home, based on the skills
obtained through the training course, they went on toacquire certificates for ASNT Level Ⅲ , and now theCenter is capable of authorizing the certification for ASNT
Level Ⅰ and Ⅱ . In addition, they increased the number ofofficers and established standards including inspection
standards and manuals, and implemented maintenanceservices for local food and chemical industries, especially
focusing on inspections of pressure containers. In theprocess of these implementations, the Center has
deepened their relationship with JICA, facilitated thesubstantiation of inspection devices, invited engineersfrom Japan and implemented JICA training in a third
country for neighboring countries; consequently it iscurrently playing a central role in diffusing and instructing
nondestructive inspection techniques in Latin America.
Reasons for this successful technological transplantation
include:(1)Continuous nondestructive inspection tasks after
returning home and efforts to acquire the certificate for
ASNT Level Ⅲ(2)Close cooperation between coworkers and theirsuperiors within the organization, exhibiting strong
team work(3)With a clear objective in mind, cooperation with the
JICA office in Mexico
Furthermore, JICA and KITA shared the CIDESI
success story with this year's participants and held a TV
conference with the former participants in May so that thecurrent participants could refer to their experience for theaction plans. Reports shared by the former participants
were very valuable for the current participants and greatly
appreciated. The relationship between Japan and Mexico
has been deepening as seen in the recent conclusion of
the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between thetwo countries. We would like to keep close relationship for
supporting them.

CIDESI headquarters

practical training on Fatigue Test at Fukuoka Industrial Technology Center

Hiroshi Toyama
Course Leader, KITA

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The latest news from the former participants
Mr. Li Hong-Wen executed the "5 Ss" (5 key activities for
productivity improvement) learned in Japan, as part of his
action plan after returning to his home country and madecontributions toward significant improvement of efficiency inthe production line at his company. Since then, he has
accumulated a good deal of experience, and now is
responsible for generating profit by investing in the stock
market as a fund manager in Shanghai. It seems that theability to understand the conditions of equipment
maintenance implemented by enterprises is a powerful toolin helping him select an investment target．
Country
Name
Place of work
Training Course
Assignment

China
Mr. Li Hong-Wen
Gene-Pharmaceutical Corporation Jiqifangzho, Beihai
Plant Maintenance Engineering for Cleaner Production (FY 2001)
Fund Manager at present (former Plant Manager)

Mr. Pascual Alfred Garcia, after returning to his homecountry, was assigned to manage reconstruction project ofreheating furnace. Despite his busy schedule, he also
launched a project for an implementation of action plan
related to a machine maintenance management system.
He is mainly implementing worksite improvement
programs such as preparing skill map and central control ofconsumables for reducing costs, which he learned in KITA
training. He is looking forward to implementing his action
plan.

Country
Name
Place of work
Training Course
Assignment

Philippines
Mr. Pascual Alfred Garcia
Asahi Glass Philippines, Inc.
Plant Maintenance Management for Cleaner Production (FY 2004)
Manager of Mechanical Maintenance Department(Responsible for the management of maintenance of all the plant's facilities
necessary for continuous production of various high grade sheet glass.)

After returning to his home country, Mr. Posew madepractical use of penetrant testing and ultrasonic testing at
his work place. The picture shows workers implementing
ultrasonic test on an penstock (1200m) at the Tung Phanhydroelectric power station. As a number of incomplete
penetration defects in welded parts were detected, they
were all rejected by the test soon all problems have beensolved after welding method has been improved.

Country
Name
Place of work
Training Course
Assignment

Thailand
Mr. Kittiporn Posew
Alternative Energy Development Dept, Ministry of Energy
Non-destructive Inspection Technique for Quality Management & Plant
Asset Management （FY 2004）
Mechanical Engineer at a Hydroelectric Project04 KITA NEWS No.5

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Recent activities for overseas development cooperation
Site Survey in India for Establishing
new Training Course on Energy
Conservation
Upon request of the Energy Conservation Group, JICA,
Mr. Takashi Yasumoto of JICA Kyushu and I visited India
to survey the need for establishing new training course onenergy conservation technology.
The impression I got from there was the significant gap
between "new and old", symbolized by the regularizedadvancement of major enterprises and administrative
offices, and old streets and the crowd of shoppers atstreet stalls and bazaars. Another impression was thesuperiority of the administration, which is a typical trait ofdeveloping countries. Even for training overseas, thegeneral rule was that "participants must be selected fromadministrative officers." However, for this training course,
the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in India, which hadrequested the training, said that they considereddispatching private citizens as they are really in need ofsuch training.
In the end, it was decided that for the training course
planned in and after 2008 FY, BEE would act as a solecontact point for applications and select suitable persons
from administrative and private energy inspectors/managers
who passed the BEE certification test. Consequently, thecontent of the training will be somewhat advanced,
including the latest energy conservation technologies.
We are in the middle of the process of proposing thedetails of this training course to the JICA India Officeagain so that the request from the Indian government canbe arrived at KITA in late August.
Takatsugu Ueyama
Course Leader, KITA

Improvement of environment throughenlightenment activities to citizens
in Vietnam and introduction of Cleaner
Production (CP)This is a project subsidized by "Japan Fund for Global
Environment (JFGE)". The project members (Fujimoto,Kushida and Terashi) visited Hai Phong City, Vietnam as
the first activity from July 8th to 14th.
The main target of the project is to tackle anenvironmental pollution caused by TRACO Company
which produces "Calcium Carbide", "Acetylene" and so on.
The residents of Minh Due Town, where TRACO is
located, are suffering from waste water, solid waste andair pollutants discharged form TRACO. We had a meetingwith TRACO and made investigation at its plants. Our pH
measurement results at various points revealed that thewaste water had high pH value, exceeding standard．This
alkaline waste water need be neutralized in order to meet
the Vietnamese environmental regulation. We
demonstrated neutralization test using hydrochloric acidor sulfuric acid in the company's laboratory. We took thesolid waste sample and brought it back to KITA for
chemical analysis.
We, accompanied with Vice Chairman of the Town
People's Committee, investigated the Town and foundthat the real environmental situation, especially neighbors
the Company, was much more serious than we imagined.
We are planning to solve these environmental problems
step by step.

Dr. Ken-ichi Fujimoto
Technical Cooperation Division, KITA

neutralization test for wastewater

a crowd in a bazaar in Old Delhi

neighbor is complaining waste water problem

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Consultation Work for Chelyabinsk,
Russia and Future Developments

Technological Cooperation with
Perwaja Steel Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Since our participation in the consultation work for
Chelyabinsk in March 2006, we have made a total of four
trips to Chelyabinsk as of this March. There have also
been four visits to Kitakyushu by the Chelyabinsk side; astrong intension for commitment has been shown fromboth sides.
Fruitage through the activities carried out over the lastyear include two cases of business matching, which are
now in the process of concluding their agreements.
The representatives (a group of 14 members) from the
Chelyabinsk government and enterprises from the state
visited Japan on May 13, and made a courtesy visit to
Mayor of Kitakyushu and inspected local enterprises.
In the future, business matching will be promoted
through the dispatch of a mission group to Chelyabinsk
from the City of Kitakyushu.

I visited Perwaja Steel Company in Malaysia to build
cooperation in slag collection and treatment technology
for six days from January 7 to 12 in 2007.
This technological cooperation took the form of
instruction on sampling and collection for examining
reusable iron materials in an estimated 1 million tons of
EAF-slag stored at the Kemaman Steel Plant, andproposing treatment methods for collected slag.
At the site, I taught about the standards for ① collecting
samples from the slag, ② separation and crush methodsof representative samples and ③ a method for samplingfrom large stock of slag.
Furthermore, according to the analysis results, in termsof the metal collection ratio, it was found that +200mm
metals by simple separation made up 37% and fine slag
crushed using a Jaw Crusher (JC) made up 44%, totaling81%.
As a slag treatment facility, a facility for +200mm metals
can be simple, but for fine slag crushed using a JC,
depending on the quality of the slag, a crusher is required,
meaning a substantial equipment cost. As a result, it does
not bring about a significant profit. Therefore, upon
considering these results, I recommended the collection of+200mm metals by simple separation.
I am planning to investigate the huge steel-making slag
stocks like mountain scattered all over the world and bringthis business project to the global forefront.

(1)Achievements of mutual exchange visits① Dispatch of a mission group from the Russian state
government and enterprises to Japan (3 times: 22
participants)② Dispatch of a mission group from Japan to Russia (6times: 22 participants)(2)Future promotional themes① Consultation for waste treatment technology(September: 2 participants)② Effective utilization of steel slag treatment (August: 2
participants)③ Dispatch of a mission group consisting of enterprises
from Kitakyushu (October: 7-8 enterprises)

Kazuya Kudo
Director of Technical Cooperation Division, KITA

Kazuya Kudo
Director of Technical Cooperation Division, KITA

President Saito of Perwaja Logistics Ltd.
holding a steel block from the slag
signing ceremony/NMD-GIPROMEZ

Chelyabinsk Mission made a courtesy visit to Mayor of Kitakyushu

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collecting iron from a large stock of slag

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Capacity Building for Supervisors
regarding Environmental Educationin Semarang City, Indonesia(Entrusted by JICA)
KITA News No.3 introduced background and theoutlines of this project from JICA. This time, we will informyou of the main contents and results of this project
including 4 goals and 16 activities.
(1)Preparation of materials for enlightenment
The Environmental Education Books for children in 4th,th
5 and 6th grade (7,500 copies) and the guidelines fortheir teachers (1,000 copies) were edited and distributed
to all elementary schools (675 schools in total) and theorganizations concerned in the city. In addition, ① Posters
for driving 3Rs(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), ② VideoCD
dealing with garbage, ③ Lyric cards for Environmental
Education (10 songs) have been prepared. The Directorof Education Bureau in Semarang city appreciated theusefulness of such materials at each school.
(2)Seminars for elementary school teachers and forcommunity residents (5-days program, each)At the former seminar 16 teachers and 3 officials, andat the latter one 20 community leaders participated. I
fulfilled a role of instructing seminars. As the result of it, I
expect that they will become excellent leaders ofenvironmental education in the future.
(3)We also have other activities such as establishment ofJunior Eco-Club, Training for Compost from garbage andEco-contests.
We are discussing how to appropriately organize
framework of relevant departments for environmental
education with the officials in Semarang city.

Impression at SEAISI Conference
2007 in Indonesia
This year's major event, SEAISI (South East Asia Iron
and Steel Institute) Conference 2007 took place atbeautiful Bali in Indonesia during May 14 ~ 16, 2007. A
plant tour to Krakatau Steel and Bluescope Steel at
Cilegon near Jakarta was followed on May 17.
About 300 participants from 25 countries gathered
together to make presentation and discuss on interesting
issue relating "Securing a Competitive Steel Industry inSouth East Asia". Topics were included broadly from raw
material, energy and environment to production
technology, quality and market situation.
I presented "Contribution of Steel Industry for Building
Up Eco-Society" as KITA representative. It was great
occasion to get the useful information on present situation
and what participants really need. Also I had goodchances to talk with several key persons in steel industryof their country to introduce KITA training course on"Cleaner Production in Steel Industry" which could be
newly planned from 2008FY. The key persons of Vietnam,
Philippine and Malaysia as well as Indonesia expressed
their willingness for making their engineers to participate
such training course.
One of my delightful thing at SEAISI Conference is tomeet old friends after long absence, whom I had close
relation during my stay in Vietnam Steel Corp. as JICA
expert. I really wish the cooperation between KITA andSEAISI members will be strengthened in succession.
Nobuyoshi Tanaka
Technical Cooperation Division, KITA

Kozo Kido
KITA Environmental Cooperation Centerat welcome party at Bali

environmental education course for community residents

with Mr.Cuong(right), chairman of Vietnam
Steel Association

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Attended The 14th Japan(Kyushu)-Korea
Economic Exchange Conference

Renewing Expertise Seminar for Korean
Small Business Engineers

The meeting, held on July 10 - 12 in Busan, Korea,
consisted of three sessions, i.e. reporting last-year activities
of some of exchange programs, introducing progress
reports on logistics taken by both cities(Busan andFukuoka/Kitakyushu), and exchanging proposals toimprove the programs. At the 1st session, Mr. Sung-Youn
Oh, General Manager of Small Business Corporation of
Korea made a presentation reporting that one engineer of ameasuring equipment manufacturing company succeeded
in improving productivity of their production line by morethan 30% by introducing QC method which he had studied
while attending KITA training program of last year. Mr. Oh
concluded that the training program supplied by KITA iseffective and preferable, and thus he plans to keep sending
engineers to KITA from now on.
The KITA training program supported by Korea-Japan
Cooperation Foundation for Industry and Technology andSmall Business Corporation of Korea started in 1994 andcontinue up until now with changing its contents time totime. According to the recent talks between both parties,
KITA renewed such a program for this year that threecourses by industry of automobile, machinery and electric,
and other group are re-compiled and methodology of
production management is simultaneously focused.
KITA is always open to hear any opinions from all of
you to meet your convenience.

The Expertise Seminar for Korean Small BusinessEngineers was established through support from theJapanese and Korean governments in 1994, aiming to
improve the level of engineers in small- and medium-size
enterprises (SMEs). This seminar has received 435
engineers from Korean SMEs and has been highly
praised by the Korean side.
However, the technological improvements in Korea inrecent years have been drastic so that program should be
modified to some extent.
As the result of discussion with the partners* on the
Korean side, the seminar for this year aims to provide thefollowing three main revised subjects to meet the needs of
Korea.
①The theme of "Production Management Technology"
represented by the Toyota Method will be emphasized.
②The courses put together for each technological theme
will be reorganized into larger topics including"automobile-related industry", "machines and electricalappliances-related industries" and "other manufacturingindustries". Through this reorganization, the seminaroffers more practical content suitable for each business
type, and chances for participants to actively exchange
information.
③ An interpreter and translation in Korean will beincorporated for all factory visits and part of thelectures.

Eiji Wada
Technical Cooperation Division, KITA

*Partners : Korea-Japan Cooperation Foundation for
Industry and Technology, Small Business Corporation of
Korea
Yuichi Arita
Administration Bureau, KITA

presentation by Mr.Sung-Youn Oh, General
Manager of Small Business Corporation of Korea

the 14th Japan(Kyushu)-Korea Economic Exchange Conference

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a scene from the seminar

International friendship promotion
Beauty of Our Host Family Program

My Life Work is International Exchange

We have welcomed 102 members from 33 different

It was 1992 when we first received accepted

countries to our home as a host family over the last 17

participants as a KITA host family. I went to meet two

years. My youngest daughter, who was in the 2nd grade ofmembers from Thailand at JICA Kyushu with my second

elementary school in the photo album of our 1st year as adaughter who was seven at that time and welcomed themhost family, is now a mother of two children. Our activities

to our home with all of my family. Since then, 15 years

as a host family illustrate the history of my family.

have passed, and we have welcomed and shared

How we became involved in these host family activities

exchanges with 70 participants in over 60 visits as a hostwas triggered by an event which occurred 28 years ago at

family. In addition to host family activities, I have beena Safari Park when my oldest son was in the 1st grade.

deepening my relationship with participants as a JICA

When we were about to take a picture with the foreigners

training instructor.

after a show, my oldest son became really nervous and

It is also a great pleasure to share exchanges with

ran away from the group. This surprising and unexpectedparticipants who have returned to their home countries. In

behavior of his stayed in my mind for a long time. The

particular, I have deepened friendship with former

time later came when I was assigned to a training

participants from Indonesia and the Philippines. I have

instructor for KITA at my job, and I was first made aware

had chances to visit their countries occasionally throughof the home visit program, and soon after we registered

my work and volunteer activities. In recent years, I visited

as a host family for the program.

the Philippines and enjoyed meeting former participants

A feature of the hospitality my family gives is from myagain. I have reunited with about 20 former participants sowife, who is an instructor on the wearing of Kimono. She

far. When I visited their countries, they always took me

dresses guests in Kimono and they are always reallysightseeing and provided me with meals, and when I left

excited to experience such a cultural activity. In recent

they filled my suitcase full with souvenirs. They also told

years, there is an increasing number of guests who want

about

to enjoy the experience of wearing Kimono. We are now

expressing their desire to go back someday. On suchwelcoming two guests at once.

occasions, I realize that I have been really lucky to be

Without leaving our home, the practice of being a hostfamily informs us of situations in the world, gives us an
opportunity to rethink our world view through contact withmemoriesofKitakyushu,

reminiscing

andinvolved in host family activities.
I will retire in 3 years, but I will continue this activity as
my lifework as long as my health allows.

different cultures, and helps us to grow more aware as we

Masato Morishita
Host Family Member

enter the age of globalization.
We would like to continue our global contribution
activities through the home visit program in the future.
Yoshio Miki
Host Family Member, Course Leader of KITA

guests wearing Kimono

with guests from Indonesia at suburban orchard

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Present Situation of KITA Training Course
International training course enforcement plan in 2007
Type

No

1
2
3
4
5

Title of training course

4 5
Environment and Energy saving management(Middle East) Industrial pollution
control management

6

Industrial wastewater
treatment technique (2)(Asia) Diagnosis technologies
for energy saving (1)(Asia) Diagnosis technologies
for energy saving (2)Domestic wastewater
treatment technique

72007
8 9 10 11 12 1

2

JICAGroup training

2008
3 4

JICA
Area-focused training

5

6

JICA
Country-focused training

KITA
Individual training

Course Leader

Capacity

KAWASAKI

7

ARAKAWA(MANABE)

8

YAZU(UEYAMA)

8

UEYAMA(YAZU)
OGAWA(YONEZAWA)

8
9

KORO

6

HARAGUCHI

12

8(Asia) Air pollutant source monitoring
management(Southwest Asia) Solid waste
management(KOICA-JICA) Environmental protection technology
and management against air pollution

NISHINO

15

9(China) Development of management capability
on environment, resources & energy for Chinese steel industry

NISHINO

14

10(Algeria) Environment management
for industry and city life

KIDO

10

11

(Philipine) Capacity development in urban
and industrial environmental management

MINAMI10

12

Design method for environmental
pollution quality standard and regulation

HARAGUCHI

10

13
14

(Kuwait) Environmental conservationfor engineers from the oil sector

10×2

15

(Vietnam) Energy conservation andEnergy management system
Production technology , Plant engineering and CPTANAKA
FUJIMOTOUEYAMA(YAZU)

1

Cleaner Production in steel industry

UENO

5

2

Plant maintenance engineering
for Cleaner Production (CP)(South America) Practical production
management

KENMOCHI

6MIYAMOTO

8

Plant maintenance management
for Cleaner Production(CP)Computerized machine control formechanical automation

ISHIKAWA(ONO)

6TANIGUCHI

5

ABE

6

TOYAMA

8MIKI

8(China) Human resource development
for business in Dalian
Occupational health management
for sustainable development

MATSUMOTO(ETOH)

8

TAKAHASHI

10

4

Food sanitation administration

TERASAKI

105(South America) Vitalization of medium
and amall sized enterprise for local industry

MIKI

10

6

Economic development of the area

MIKI

3

7

(Samoa) Vocational training
management

MATSUMOTO(ARITA)

3

8(South Korea) Management for
automobile related industry

ISHII

7

9

(South Korea) Management formachine and electrical industry

KAYAMA

7

10(South Korea) Management forthe other manufacturing industry

KITADA

6

11(Vietnam) Counter part training course
on mechanical equipment service

MIYAMOTO

3

6
7

3
4
5
6

Cleaner Production in processindustries

7

Non-destructive inspection technique for
quality management and plant asset management (3)Job training and Enhancing management ability(Central and South America) Job training
coordinated with industry

12
3

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8

Type

No
1
2
3

Title of training course

4
Development of Recycling-based Society(China) Promotion of
circular economy(Asian Countries) Construction anddesigning for sound material cycle society

4(ASEAN) Asean sustanable society
development (programmed by prefecture)

5(China) Asean sustanable society
development (programmed by prefecture)
Human Resource Development for Asia
Sewerage management techniquefor Hohhot
Sewerage management techniquefor Kunming

1
2
3
4

5

6

7

2007
8 9 10 11 12 1

2

JICAGroup training

2008
3 4

JICA
Area-focused training

5

6

Establishment of the environmentally-soundmaterial cycle society for Guizhou University
Wastewater treatment management
for the Middle East

JICA
Country-focused training

KITA
Individual training

Course Leader

Capacity

SASHIWA

10×2

KAWAI

12

TAJIMA(SASHIWA)
TAJIMA(SASHIWA)

87

YASUDA

9
10

TSURUTA

12×3
10×1
20

MINAMI

10

FUJIMOTO

10×2

5

Environmental Management for Iraq

6

Water quality control techniquefor Guiyang

20

7

CRAIR participant training

1

8

Establishment of the environmentally-soundmaterial cycle society for Liaoning

15(2007/08/31)

Number of overseas participants received by KITA
（Participants 450／Year）

400
350●Number of Participants by Fiscal Year（as of March 2007）

4,438 participants from 121 countries ('80 to '06 in total)
JICA Participants……………………… 3,547persons（total Participants）

4,500
4,000

JKITCF･Kitakyushu City Participants… 891persons

3,000

300
250

2,000

200
150
Total（right scale）

100

1,000

50
0

0
'80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 （Fiscal Year）

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Recommendation on Eco-Town Project in City of Suzhou, China.
City of Suzhou has established basic guidelines
concerning Eco-Town Project namely "Fundamental
Strategies for Establishment Venous Industries in Suzhou
High Tech Park" and has a final target to create thehighest-level Eco-Town in China.
The guidelines aim at the simultaneously realization of
implementation of three targets.
① Reduction of environmental pollutants② Promotion of efficient use of resources③ Attraction and fosterage of sound venous industries
Based on this understanding, the study team (City of
Kitakyushu, KITA and experts) conducted field surveys,
during which the study team carried out a hearing andplant survey of the industry using several kinds of plastic
materials located in Industrial Park.
Through the surveys, almost waste plastic materials
seem to be sold as valuable resources, but the study

team could not confirm that all waste plastic materials
were treated appropriately and definitely not to besecondary pollutants.
Finally, the study team would like to recommend City of
Suzhou had better to specifically select Electronics andElectric Industries which dispose high grade andadequate quantities of waste plastic materials as a typicalmodel case in Recycle Industry.
Shizuo Kushida
KITA Environmental
Cooperation Center

conference with Suzhou
Environmental Protection Bureau

Training course of Sewerage Management Technique for Kunming
As a part of JBIC’s ODA loan project "Water Management
Project for Kunming City", this training course is
implemented. For the purpose of this course is to develop
the human resources on sewage construction andmanagement project, we will accept total 90 participants, 8
groups for 3 years.
The 1st training course was held from March 29 to April
14, and 11 members were joined.
In Kitakyushu City and other place, they had some
lectures and field visit about sewerage management
system.

We hope that this training can contribute to the water
environment improvement of Kunming City.

Saburo Tsuruta
Course Leader, KITA

in front of JBIC

Training course of Wastewater Treatment Management Program for Middle East (2nd)
The training course, trusted from the Middle Easterncooperation center, Japan, was carried out from February
16 to March 1. 19 participants from 7 oil-producing
countries in Middle Eastern, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait,
Qatar, Iraq, and Libya, took the training.
The training course consisted of lectures, discussions
and inspections about sewerage treatment facility in
Kitakyushu and Tokyo. As contents of the training werefocused on the maintenance of facilities, the course wasmore concrete training than the last time.

All participants finished the training and thanked
lecturers, and went back home safely.
Hisao Minami
Course Leader, KITA

after training, with every
participants and coordinators

No.5
KITA
NEWS
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA;kaita)
October 2007

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