Japan will push ahead with wide-ranging reforms and strengthen its relations with China and South Korea, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said today, in what may be his last annual policy speech to parliament.

The death toll after today's Japanese train crash is now 50 and officials say the number of injured had increased to 417.

A crowded commuter train derailed and smashed into a block of flats in western Japan today, killing at least 37 people and injuring 200 others.