  The main aim of this work is the characterization of physical properties of
galaxies detected in the far infrared (FIR) in the AKARI Deep Field-South
(ADF-S) survey. Starting from a catalog of the 1 000 brightest ADF-S sources in
the WIDE-S (90$\mu$m) AKARI band, we constructed a subsample of galaxies with
spectral coverage from the ultraviolet to the far infrared. We then analyzed
the multiwavelength properties of this 90$\mu$m selected sample of galaxies.
For galaxies without known spectroscopic redshifts we computed photometric
redshifts using the codes Photometric Analysis for Redshift Estimate (Le PHARE)
and Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE), tested these photometric
redshifts using spectroscopic redshifts, and compared the performances of both
codes. To test the reliability of parameters obtained by fitting spectral
energy distributions, a mock cataloge was generated. We built a large
multiwavelength catalog of more than 500 ADF-S galaxies. We successfully fitted
Spectral Energy Distributions of 186 galaxies with $\rm{\chi^2_{min}<4}$, and
analyzed the output parameters of the fits. We conclude that our sample
consists mostly of nearby actively star-forming galaxies, and all our galaxies
have a relatively high metallicity. We estimated photometric redshifts for 113
galaxies from the whole ADF-S sample. Comparing the performance of Le PHARE and
CIGALE, we found that CIGALE gives more reliable redshift estimates for our
galaxies, which implies that including the IR photometry allows for substantial
improvement of photometric redshift estimation.
