■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

No.14
Mar 2012

JESC NEWS“The 4th 3R Conference for Asian LocalGovernments” organized by JESC was heldwith a great success in January, 2012
Environment,fromTokyo

Metropolitan

Government gave speeches as co-organizers.
The keynote presentation was given by Mr.
Michikazu Kojima, JETRO. He is one of theleading experts in the field of waste management
especially in Asian countries. The title ofpresentation was "Toward Effective Cooperation
forPromoting

3Rs

among

AsianLocalGovernments".
Japan Environmental Sanitation Center, JESC

At each session, the participants had lively andheld “The 4th 3R Conference for Asian Local

meaningful discussions after the presentations

Governments”

from Jan. 30thto 31st2012 ingiven by participants from Asian countries.

Tokyo.
The conference invited 5 Japanese local
governments

includingMetropolitan

shared an understanding as follows; to promote theGovernment, Kawasaki city, City of Kitakyushu,

3R, it is important to engage in a scheme

Sendai city and City of Yokohama , along with 5

integrating not only resources recycling but also

Asian cities including Shenyang/China, Padang

biodiversity conservation and realization of a low/Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia, Bangkok/carbon society.

Thailand and Hanoi/Vietnam.

To accelerate technological transfer, it is crucial for

This two days conference was held on threebusinesses with high technology to interact withdifferent themes which are: “MSW and 3R Policy”,

one another. Thus it is important for local“Technicalgovernments to support businesses as well as toTransfer”

TokyoThroughout those discussions, the participants

and“DisasterWasteManagement”.

improve

For the opening, Mr. Tetsuo Ito, Director Generalbusinesses to be viable, in order to establishof Waste Management and Recycling Department,

extensive trust-based relationships among local

from Ministry of the Environment and Mr.

administrations, which have responsibility for solid

Teruyuki Ohno, Director General of Bureau ofwaste management.

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To facilitate disposal of disaster waste, it isHere we received some comments andnecessary

messages from the participants. Thank youtoform

anextensive

teamofstakeholders, including local government officers,very much!

citizens, researchers and engineers, who gettogether across their city borders, for furtherMr.Didi Aryadi (Padan, Indonesia)

collaborations and commitments.

"I am very pleased to have been invited toparticipate in the 4th 3R Conference for
wereasian Local Governments in Tokyo-Japan.

summarized as “TOKYO DECLARATION”

This conference is very important for us toand adopted by all participants.

be able to continue to keep urban

Theopinions

anddiscussions

environment clean. In this conference weTokyo Declaration (for short)share experiences and learn about how toToday people are sharing common sense of value

manage the waste, so that we can produce aand influencing each other more often than before

clean and healthy city.We can replicate thein Asia, where an incident in a country tends tobetter methods used by other cities in waste

bring about a serious impact on the lives of citizens

management, in accordance with thefor their production and consumption in otherconditions of each city. This conference iscountries as the people, the goods and the means ofvery prestigious and quality, managed toproduction are being transferred dynamically

produce "Tokyo Declaration". JESC makeacross national borders…. (partially omitted)

the conference successful, attractive andToday the participants of the 4th 3R Conference forimportant in managing solid waste in urban

Asia Local Governments have agreed that they will

areas. I am pleased to be part of thismake utmost efforts in order to achieve 3R in theirimportant conference. And would be happy if

own country as well as in Asian Region, and toat the next conference, more cities in Asia topromote the mutual cooperation and exchange ofjoin at this conference, which will create

experiences. We believe these results should becities in Asia nicer and caring in waste

disseminated to other cities in Asia.

management".

(full text:
http://www.jesc.or.jp/environmentS/3r_conference/
img/tokyo_en.pdf)

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■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center③Ms. Nuntiya Muangmor (Bangkok,

have chances to share more information andThailand)

experiences it will make them ready to fightThe 4th 3R Conference for Asian Local

disasters and have appropriate management

Government which held on January 30 andand I sincerely hope that the meeting will

31 in Tokyo was interesting and very fruitfulcontinue to develop further in the coming

for many participants. Three topics of thefuture.

conference such as 3R policy, technologicaltransfer and disaster solid waste
management were important to be shared in
the conference and the outcome from theconference could brought to improved waste
management and performance in each local
government and could disseminated to theother countries in Asia. For future meeting,three topics are still important especially thetopic of disaster solid waste management
because at present there are many countries(Yoshiko MATSUMURA)

facing the natural disasters, if participants

Enforcement of JICA Follow-up Project for
Cambodia
Japan Environment Sanitation Center(JESC) carried out Follow-up Project for
Cambodia to be assisted by JICA on JFY
2011.
Mr. Chin Chamreoun and Mr. Kong
Savuth of Ministry of Environment
Cambodia who participated in the training
course in “Air Quality Management Policy
2011” by JICA made an action plan titled“The Improvement of Air Quality
Management in Phnom Penh City”. Theylisted three aspects to improve the problems
in the Action Plan. Upon their return, they
remade the action plan to be focused on one
aspect as Establish PM10 and NOxMonitoring Site. After that, they asked JESC
assistance for technical guidance for theaction plan. JICA and JESC decided tosupport this Action Plan for JICA Follow-up
Project in JFY2011.
Phnom Penh City has high motorizationfor economic growth smoothly and themotorcycles have been increasing in recentyears. Therefore, Air pollution problems
have been caused by motorcycles and a
traffic jam. It is predicted that the number ofcars increases year by year. It is important tomeasure air quality on roadside for policy
makingcountermeasuresagainstairpollution.
Term of the Follow-up Project was fromNov. 2011 to Mar.2012 and three times
missions were dispatched to Cambodia toprovide technical guidance for conducting

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the action plan. Content of JICA Follow-up
Project for Cambodia has four items.
1) To provide technical guidance for
implementing the action plan2) To implement on-site training of airquality monitoring at the roadside3) To implement seminars
4) To prepare guidelines on air quality
monitoring of the roadside (written in Khmerand English
Technical assistance provided by theJapanese side was Measurement of NOx (NO,NO2) by the sampler of molecure diffusing
method and Measurement of PM10 by thesampler of gravimetric method.
Members of dispatchedfollowing the three experts.

team

Running so many motorcycles

were-Team leader：Iwao YAJIMA（JICA Expert）-Technical supervision (measurement andanalysis)：Katsuyuki TAKAHASHI (Director,Environmental
ResearchDivision,Environmental Science Dept. JESC)-Management of training ： Masumi
FURUSAWA (Senior Adviser, Training andPublic Relations Dept, JESC)

PM10 sampler at back-ground site

Further more, Mr.Taizo YAMADA andMs.Yuko SOMEYA participated in the third
dispatched team for evaluation and supportof the dispatched team.

Based on the technical guidance of theaction plan, expected outcomes from thefollow-up project were following and alltargets were achieved.
1) To implement capacity assessments on thebasis of air quality analysis.
2) To continue air quality monitoring whichis capable of measuring in a sustainable
manner through the utilization of existingmeasuring equipments and implementationof technical guidance on NOX, PM10
measuring technologies.

NOx Sampler at NO.2 sampling point3)To become capable of collecting basic
information of air quality in Cambodia.

(Masumi FURUSAWA)
view of seminar④

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⑤JESC conducted seven JICA training courses
in FY2011
We have implemented seven JICA training
courses contracted by JICA, having eighty-six participants from twenty three countries.
The courses are ‘Comprehensive Solid Waste
Management and the 3Rs’ (Jun.14-July30,2011), ‘Counterpart Training for The
Project for Capacity Development ofWastewater Sector through Reviewing theWastewater Management Master Plan in DKI
Jakarta’ (Jun.5-Jun.11, Jun.20-July7, 2011),‘Hazardous
Waste
ManagementandAppropriate Disposal for Asia’ (July5-Aug.6,2011), ‘Waste Management Technologies
and 3R for Central and South American

Countries’ (Aug.9-Sep.22,2011), ‘Water
Environment
Monitoring’(Sep.4-Oct.22,2011), ’ Environmental Policy
Implementation
inIndonesia’(Dec.11-Dec.24,2011),’Air
Quality
Management Policy (Jan.10-Feb.25, 2011).
We hope participants could improve theirrespective situations utilizing knowledge andinformation obtained in the training and keep
good memories about Japan. We are looking
forward to seeing participants again.

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Management of Disaster Waste Generated
Accompanied withTohoku-Region Pacific Coast Earthquake,Follow-up ReportMore than one year has past since thetremendous earthquake broke out. Timepasses so fast like an arrow. Approximately
20 thousand people were killed and disaster
wastes which exceeded 20 million tons weregenerated mostly by the tsunami. It is truly
sad that so many people were seriously
suffered from the disaster but we are required
to recover the society and move forward.
Solving the disaster problem is the first stepof restoration.

public relation department set up the lecture
courses to grow technicians to clear up thematters contaminated with radio active
substances.
As to on-site, all the disaster wastes have removed
from the living environment and transported toprimary storage yards following the MoE
guidelines. Temporary facilities to process

disaster wastes are also constructed in somesecondary storage yards and recently startedoperations.

Japan Environmental Sanitation Center,JESC, has worked last 13 months closely
together with the Ministry of theEnvironment Japan and continuously took
various actions not to contribute only tosuffered areas but give technical assistances
to local governments and some other sectors
which were making efforts to solve therelated problems.
For instance, the assistance team which was
set in JESC head quarter provided timely
advices and recommendations to various
inquiries, the planning department produced
international conferences and seminars suchas “3R Conference for Asian LocalGovernments” in which countermeasures todisaster wastes were discussed beyond
national boarders. The environmental
engineering department dispatched 10engineers to the suffered areas as members of
the MoE assistance teams and also assisted
local governments which tried to accept
disaster
waste
generated
inthetsunami-stricken areas. The training andIshinomaki city Miyagi Pref, 15th March 2011

Same place of the above picture, 6th July 2011

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wastes disposal founding the situation. One
is the law which enables the national
government to dispose of the disaster wastes
in lieu of local governments in case they
have serious difficulty to process the wastes.
The other is the law which the national
government disposes of the wastes in whichradio active substances exceed specifiedconcentration.
Minami-sanriku town, Miyagi Pref. 12th March 2011

Same place of the above t picture, 29th May 2011

In addition, two special countermeasure laws
were newly enacted to accelerate disasterWe, staff of JESC, are very pleased that wecould have completed various tasks such as
JICA
training
courses,
international
conferences and technical assistances to thesectors which are developing international
activities as well as previous years
meanwhile JESC played an important role tocope with disaster wastes. We believe that
our new challenges enrich our future
activities and will provide you with moresignificant information. We look forward toseeing you again.

(Shoichi HAYAMI)

Editor’s Comment
Hi friends, how are you? We are very
happy to send you all the JESC-News No.14
here. This news includes 4 articles and 2
mails from our foreign friends.
Article 1:
The 4th 3R conference for
Asian local governments
This is a very important conference to makerelationship among Asian local governments
sponsored by JESC. In order to promotespreading 3R movement over Asian countries,
we discussed and exchanged our experiences.
I hope my friends who are working for
3R-promotion in their own cities will attend
this conference with successful results nearfuture.
Article 2: Soft follow-up
I am sure your action plans have been goingwell in your city or town.
If you are weary and feeling small in yourproject, please send us SOS.
As you know JICA has a scheme to help you
in order to proceed your action plans.
One of follow-up activities by JESC isreported by Furusawa in this paper.
This is a typical example of such a scheme.
We are always ready to assist you.
Article 3: Training course
We had many participants for various

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training courses held by JICA and JESC lastyear. They all worried about the damages
caused by tsunami and earthquake. Many
friends send us e-mails showing their prayers
for us to recover soon and they said they arealways with us. I would like to express ourthanks to those heartfelt and encouraging
mails.

<Japanese language corner>

I would like to present you three of myfavorite Japanese words.
They are, shinrai ,kichomen and sayonara
Shinrai （信頼）：reliability
Kichomen （几帳面）：precise , a man ofmethods

Article 4: Recovery Works from the damageof tsunami and earthquake

We JESC are now working for recovery
projects together with the central government
especially MOE Japan.
Mr. Hayami
described the article related to the treatment
of disaster wastes. Recently many
undamaged local governments decided toaccept the disaster wastes generated bytsunami and earthquake in order to help thedamaged local governments recover as soonas possible.

Sayonara (さよなら) ：good by , see you
Here are some of my memo citing phrases
from my favorite Japanese pop songs“Sayonara is not a sad word.
It is a yell to connect with each other’s dreamHolding the memory while we lived together,
we have just jump to fly up alone into nextsky.”(Hideaki FUJIYOSHI)

Mr. Miyagawa
Dr. Fujiyoshi

Ms. Nakamura

Ms. Matsumura
Mr. Hayami

Mr. Furusawa

JESC NEWS No.14
March, 2012

Publisher: Akio OKUMURA
Editor: Hideaki FUJIYOSHI
Staff: T. Miyagawa, S. Hayami,
M. Furusawa, K. Nakamura
Y. Matsumura
Published by: Japan Environmental
Sanitation Center (JESC)

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