Embassy helps UK Japan teachers
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The British Embassy in Tokyo says it will help hundreds of teachers after a language school chain in Japan went bust.
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The Japanese Emperor arrived in Britain Sunday for a three-day visit that will see him carry out engagements including dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
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Hundreds of newly-qualified teachers in Wales cannot find work because too many of them have been trained.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is due in China, on a visit aimed at improving ties between the two countries.
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Schools in England are given religious teaching guidelines aimed at promoting "understanding and respect".
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Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile.
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Japan has sent two diplomats to a forensic medical facility in Iraq to see if a head and body found in Baghdad was that of a Japanese man taken hostage.
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The BBC's Mike Baker asks whether Thailand's schools offer an example for Britain's to follow.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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Text of report by Radio Nigeria from Abuja on 19 February  The Japanese government is to assist Nigeria in the installation of radio broadcasting facility.
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More people have signed up to train as teachers in England than at any time since 1975, figures show.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost the country's role in global   affairs and revive respect for traditional values at home.
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Pupils in England are being promised at least five hours of "high-quality cultural activities" a week.
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Japan will provide around $30 million in  aid to countries hit by an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed  more than 29,000 people, and will send three navy vessels to  waters off Thailand to help rescue survivors.
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Japanese audiences get the chance to see shows such as Blackadder and Fawlty Towers with the launch of BBC Japan.
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Japan's foreign minister visits Russia for talks aimed at improving ties damaged by the Kuril Islands dispute.
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Japan's parliament revised the country's central education law Friday to require schools to encourage patriotism in the classroom for the first time since World War II.