'Koryo Socks' from Koryo-cho, Nara Prefecture Contribute to Educational Support in Nepal; Nakayoshi Gakuen Shares Peace Philosophy

On June 4, 2026, the specified non-profit organization Nakayoshi Gakuen Project (located in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture; Representative: Yuichi Nakamura) visited Omsatiya Rural Municipality in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, Nepal, and met with Mayor Manjeet Yadav and Executive Officer Krishna Prasad Panthi.

During the meeting, Nakayoshi Gakuen reported on the school visits, model classes, science education, disaster prevention education, peace education, and exchange activities with Japanese schools that they have been conducting in the region. The municipality highly evaluated the significance of hands-on educational support in schools, expressed gratitude for the introduction of high-quality Japanese education, and showed expectations for continued support in the future.

In addition, Nakayoshi Gakuen presented 'Koryo Socks,' a specialty product of Koryo-cho, Nara Prefecture. They introduced the technological capabilities, quality, and spirit of manufacturing that pursues user comfort inherent in Japanese regional industries, conveying that education nurtures regional industries, and in turn, regional industries support people's lives and peace.

In June 2026, Nakayoshi Gakuen visited multiple schools in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, Nepal, conducting model classes based on Japanese education.

In these classes, they utilized familiar materials such as buzzers (bunbun-goma), juggling bag YOYOs, Cartesian divers, blacklight pens, cotton candy machines, origami, disaster prevention books, newspaper slippers, peace posters, and 'Nakayoshi Trees' to develop learning that fosters scientific thinking, creativity, disaster awareness, and peace awareness.

What Nakayoshi Gakuen emphasizes is not a one-way delivery of goods or classes. It is about creating a system where local students and teachers can reproduce what they have learned in class within their own schools and pass it on to other children.

During this administrative visit, it was reported that these activities have the potential to develop beyond mere international exchange into regional educational improvement, enhanced student motivation, improved teacher lesson planning, and educational cooperation at the municipal level.

During the meeting, Mayor Manjeet Yadav and Executive Officer Krishna Prasad Panthi highly praised Nakayoshi Gakuen's educational support activities.

Particularly appreciated was the fact that Nakayoshi Gakuen's activities are not just material support, but hands-on educational support that increases students' motivation to learn and stimulates teachers' lesson creation.

Furthermore, the initiative to connect Japanese schools, municipalities, and regional industries with Nepalese schools, leading to mutual understanding and regional development through education, made the meeting feel full of potential for future collaboration.

The municipality voiced the need to learn from Japanese education and manufacturing, expressing hope that Nakayoshi Gakuen will continue its support.

The item Nakayoshi Gakuen presented during this visit was socks from Koryo-cho, Nara Prefecture.

Koryo-cho is known as one of Japan's leading sock production areas, fostering high-quality sock manufacturing within its regional history and industry. Nakayoshi Gakuen utilizes these socks not merely as a gift, but as educational materials to convey Japanese manufacturing and regional industry.

During the meeting, using the socks from Koryo-cho as an example, they explained that in Japan, education fosters observation skills, ingenuity, and the ability to continuously improve, which has led to improvements in technology and quality.

Furthermore, the development of regional industries creates employment, supports people's lives, and enriches the region. Wealth becomes the power to help others and forms the foundation that supports peace.

Through the socks of Koryo-cho, Nakayoshi Gakuen conveyed this educational model—'from learning to manufacturing', 'from manufacturing to regional wealth', and 'from wealth to mutual aid and peace'—to the administrative officials in Nepal.