Japan and the United States have agreed to help increase the number of licensed Japanese language teachers and roll out various measures to step up education cooperation, officials with knowledge of the matter said Thursday.In addition to working together to stem the decline in Japanese language courses in the United States, the measures include those aimed at promoting exchange programs and developing people in Japan to work in the technology industry, according to the officials.Senior officials of the two countries discussed priority issues in Washington in October and they are now finali…READ FULL ARTICLE