No.15 January 2013 ①■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

JESC NEWSNo.15Jan, 2013

New Year Greetings
JapanEnvironmental Sanitation Center,JESC would like to send a hearty message tothose who are striving for environmental

economic development should not cause anegative impact such as environmental
pollution.

problems around the world.
I believe your country is making every effort
for economic prosperity and improvement ofpeople’s life. Some countries have alreadyachieved high economic growth, and othercountries are now ready to make remarkableprogress. In any case, it is not acceptable atthe present time that only developed
countries maintain high economic growthand developing countries remain low growth.
All the people in the world should enjoy anaffluent and comfortable life.
However, rapid economic growth could
break social balance and cause diverse
environmental problems such as pollution or
waste issue. Japan has suffered from severe
environmental problems in the history andtherefore could show a good lesson to yourcountry. At the same time, the various efforts
which Japan has made to overcome
environmental problems could become agood example to your country. You had achance to visit Japan and learned theJapanese experience on some occasions. I
hope you make the best of this experienceand do your best so that your country’s

There is a Japanese word “Ichigo - ichie”
meaning “meeting only once in a lifetime,
therefore value each single meeting”. And
we also have a word “MOTTAINAI”.
“MOTTAINAI” means that every products
is manufactured by many people’s effort,
therefore we have to thank them and should
not waste. It is my desire that you maintainwhat you learned in Japan and also keep thiskind of Japanese way of thinking in mind.
We, JESC will not forget meeting you inJapan and keep providing information on
Japan; at the same time we would like you toprovide us with information in your country.
We desire our mutual cooperation enables along-term relationship and this relationshipalso leads to sustainable development inyour country.
We wish you continued success andprosperity in the years ahead,

Akio Okumura
President
Japan Environmental Sanitation Center(JESC)

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No.15 January 2013 ②“The 5th 3R Conference for Asian Local Governments”
by JESC will be held in January 2013For achieving sustainable society, we believethat multiple approaches are the key done by
not only national level but also by local
government. It is significant to build a
network among local government involving in
waste management for information sharing
and discussion for solving problems.
Since 2008, “the 3R conference for Asian LocalGovernments” has been continuously held by
JESC. Aiming to promote for 3R, local
government officials from Asian countries has
been gathered to exchange information anddiscuss on 3R promotion and technology
transfer. The result achieved in the conferenceis summarized and agreed as a declaration, inorder to be shared with Asian local
governments.
The 5th conference will be held in January
2013 in Kawasaki city. For the details, please
go to the website.
(http://www.jesc.or.jp/en/3r_conference.html)

DATE: January 29, 2013
VENUE:
Kawasaki
CityIndustrial
Promotion HallTHEME:
1st Session: MSW・3R Policy
2nd Session: Technology Transfer
ORGANIZER:
Japan Environmental
Sanitation Center
CO-ORGANIZER:
Kawasaki
City/MinistryoftheEnvironment, Japan/ Tokyo MetropolitanGovernment

The details and results of the conference will
be reported in the next newsletter.
(Yoshiko MATSUMURA)■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

No.15 January 2013 ③

JESC conducted six JICA Training Courses in 2012
We have implemented six JICA training
courses contracted by JICA, having fifty five participants from twenty five countries.
They came from Argentina, Bangladesh,
Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador,Indonesia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands,Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palau,
Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, PNG, Serbia,and Zimbabwe.

The courses are “Air Quality ManagementPolicy”(Jan.12Feb.24,2012),“Comprehensive Solid Waste Managementand the 3Rs” (Jun.11 - Jul.27, 2012),“HazardousWaste
ManagementandAppropriate Disposal in Asia” (Jul.17-Aug.10,2012), “Waste Management Technologies and3Rs for Central and South American
Countries” (Aug.15-Sep.21, 2012), “WaterEnvironmental Monitoring” (Sep. 3-Oct.19,2012).
We hope participants could improve theirrespective situation utilizing knowledge andinformation obtained in the training andkeep good memories about Japan. We arelooking forward to seeing participants again.

(Takashi MIYAGAWA)■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

No.15 January 2013 ④

Activities of Japan Sanitation Consortium (JSC)
JSC was inaugurated in October 2009 as aknowledge hub on sanitation among theWater Knowledge Hub Network which wasestablished under the Asia Pacific Water
Forum (APWF), in order to solve water
problems in the Asia-Pacific region.

sanitation improvement, gives advice andassistance for sanitation related operations by
Asian Development Bank (ADB) or Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
andcollaborates
withinternationalorganizations, NGOs and NPOs.

JSC consists of five organizations: 1. Japan
Environmental Sanitation Center (JESC), 2.
Sewerage Business Management Centre(SBMC), 3. Japan Sewage WorksAssociation (JSWA), 4. Japan Education
Center of Environmental Sanitation (JECES),and 5. Japan Sewage Works Agency (JS).

Japan Environmental Sanitation Center(JESC), as second office of JSC’s, hasparticipated in the investigation andconference of on-site sanitation, andindependently developed a master plan ofJakarta wastewater treatment for JICA andcreated a manual of on-site treatment
technology maintenance in India. JESC has
also been building a knowledge hub toimprove water environment and sanitation in
Bandung, Indonesia by forming a Japanesetask team consisting of researchers,companies and NGOs. The task teamconducted field research in Bandung andpreceding case study in Japan incollaboration with the Indonesian task team(local researchers, authorities and communityactivists). From now onwards, the bilateraltask team is going to hold a workshop to
exchange opinions and discuss concreteplans, and shall promote recycling andproper treatment of wastewater and sludge
by targeting low income communities. This
activity is subsidized by the Japan Fund for
Global Environment. JESC promotes evenfurther for the improvement of sanitation
environment in the Asian region.

The mission of JSC covers a wide rage ofsanitation field from on-site sewage
treatment and water purification tank tohuman waste treatment. JSC forms a networkwith international organizations to collect,
share, and disseminate relevant knowledge
for the purpose of capacity building inpolicy-making and technical expertise on
sanitation in the countries of the Asia-Pacificregion, and for the development of sewage
system, spread of toilet and on-sitepurification tank, and human waste
treatment.
In order to achieve the mission, JSC
organizes
internationalseminars
bynetworking with other countries, investigatessanitation improvement, gives advice andassistance for sanitation related operations by
Asian Development Bank (ADB) or Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
andcollaborates
withinternationalorganizations, NGOs and NPOs.
In order to achieve the mission, JSC
organizes
internationalseminars
bynetworking with other countries, investigates(Akira MORITA)

No.15 January 2013 ⑤■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

Editor’s Comment
HELLO EVERYONE, HOW ARE YOU?
In this edition I would like to send you 3
topics. They are (1) 5th 3R conference for
Asian local governments, (2) JICA training
course, and (3) JSC activities.
Regarding the first topic, we invited 6
representatives from Asian cities, Bandung,Bangkok, Cauayan, Ho chi minh, Yangon,
and Solid Waste and Public Cleansing
Management Corporation (Malaysia), andcould have fruitful results through lively
exchange of opinions. Anyone who wants tosee the result, just visit JESC web-site andyou will find it as “Kawasaki declaration”.
Though we need to ask you to wait its precise
report until next edition, here I want tointroduce an essence of it briefly citing from
“Kawasaki declaration”.
-------------------------------------------------------------We, the representatives of the twelve Cities of Asia

1. 3R Policy
Each local government needs to further
promote 3R.
For that, it is important to implement drastic
measures reflecting local and historic characteristicsof the city.
We need to mutually reference the information ofother cities.
For that purpose, we are required to assess theeffect of each activity quantitatively.
As a first step, we need to create a data base onmunicipal solid waste management.
2. Technology Transfer
It is necessary for cities to introduce appropriate
waste management technology by referring tosystems of pioneering cities.
At the same time, it is important to examineconditions and features of the relevant cities and toverify the characteristics of the technology to betransferred.

and three International Institutions, have agreed on3.

the following points.

International Institutions

Today Asia is an engine of the global economicTheWe

Roles

expectofthat

CentralGovernmentandthe central governments andboost. At the same time, however, that has broughtinternational institutions should prepare statistics

about serious environmental impacts.

such as resource productivity and solid waste

Current developments in Asia, if continues as theyare, have risks to lead to a destruction of the wholeglobe.

generation per GDP as sustainability indicators.
Fromtheviewpointof

thepromotionofinformation exchange, this Network Meeting is

Each country in Asia is expected to make efforts toexpected to progress further.

minimize environmental impacts.

January 29, 2013

For that purpose, the most important thing is torespondtothissituation

strategically(Hideaki FUJIYOSHI)

withinternational cooperation and collaboration.

JESC NEWS No.15
January, 2013
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Publisher: Akio OKUMURA
Editor: Hideaki FUJIYOSHI
Staff: T. Miyagawa, S. Hayami,K. Nakamura, Y. Matsumura
Published by: Japan EnvironmentalSanitation Center (JESC)

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