Japan will send a senior government official to Afghanistan to hold talks on a Japanese proposal to set up a demobilization registration agency to help find employment for soldiers who have fought in Afghanistan's civil war, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday.

Kawaguchi arrived in Tehran earlier in the day for a three-day visit. She had offered the agency initiative in talks with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai during a visit to Kabul on Wednesday.

Nobutaka Miyahara, head of the Foreign Ministry's Second Middle East Division, will travel to Afghanistan, possibly this week, to discuss the matter with Afghan government officials and U.N. representatives in Kabul, Japanese officials said.

According to Japanese officials, the proposed agency would provide job training and find employment for the demobilized soldiers.