The Herschel Space Observatory is the European Space Agency's state of the art infrared space telescope launched into space on 14 May 2009, covering the wavelength range from 70-700 microns with 3 instruments SPIRE, PACS and HIFI. Large area surveys are being carried out by Herschel in the AKARI legacy fields at the North and South Ecliptic Poles and the AKARI All-Sky Survey provides additional synergy with the largest survey with Herschel, H-ATLAS, covering more than 500 square degrees. This paper reports on some of the early results of these synergies between Herschel and AKARI including the first comparison of the AKARI All-Sky Survey number counts with the deeper Herschel surveys.

ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE AKARI ALL SKY SURVEY
3. HERSCHEL OBSERVATIONS IN THE AKARI NEP FIELD
4. SUMMARY
REFERENCES

• CHRIS PEARSON(RAL Space, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University)
• STEPHEN SERJEANT(Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University)
• CHRIS SEDGWICK(Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University)
• GLENN J. WHITE(RAL Space, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University)
• HIDEO MATSUHARA(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
• TOSHINOBU TAKAGI(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
• OI NAGISA(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
• KAZUMI MURATA(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
• TAKAO NAKAGAWA(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)
• ISSEI YAMAMURA(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA)