The Tsuzuki Integrated Educational Institute, a private group that owns professional schools across the country, is accepting applications for its first Asia-Pacific Cup English Presentation Contest from non-native English speakers.

The theme of the presentation should be "A proposal for Asia in the 21st century." Qualified applicants will be Japanese or students from other Asian nations who live in Japan for the senior high school division, and Asian college students between the ages of 18 and 28 for the college and university division.

For more information about the high school division, contact Ochanomizu Institute of Foreign Languages at (03) 3814-3500 or (0120) 858-874. For entries in the college and university division, call the Asia Economic Research Institute within Daiichi University of Economics at (092) 922-5131, or (0120) 191-691.