AKARI is an infrared space mission of JAXA, Japan with 
the participation of
ESA. The satellite, launched on February 22, 2006, has 
a 68.5 cm telescope
and detectors covering the wavelength range from 1.7 
to 180 micron. During
its 'cool' phase of 550 days, AKARI completed the far-
infrared All-Sky
Survey covering about 94 per cent of the entire sky, and 
also carried out
mid-infrared survey as well as more than five thousand 
individual pointed
observations. We have done infrared studies of 
supernova remnants (SNRs)
using AKARI. We observed Galactic SNRs using the 
near/mid-infrared camera
IRC and/or the far-infrared camera FIS. The target SNRs 
include Crab-like
SNRs, young core-collapse SNRs, and SNRs interacting 
with molecular clouds.
We have also studied SNRs in the Large Magellanic 
Cloud (LMC) using the
AKARI large-scale LMC survey data. I will present the 
contents of our study
and some  main results.