LEIFRAS Co., Ltd. Re-selected to Present Swimming Lesson Support for 1,757 Sessions Across 43 Schools in Fukuoka City

Physical Education Class Support Initiative Aims to Further Reduce Teacher Workloads

TOKYO, May 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LEIFRAS Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: LFS) (the “Company” or “Leifras”), a sports activities and social enterprise firm devoted to youth sports activities and group engagement, immediately introduced that it had been awarded a contract by Fukuoka City for “Swimming Lesson Support Services (West Block)” (the “Contract”). The Contract represents a continuation of the Company’s companies to help bodily schooling lessons and reinforces its position in supporting structural challenges in Japan’s schooling system.

According to the Contract, Leifras will dispatch specialised instructors to help faculty academics in 1,757 swimming lesson classes throughout 43 elementary faculties in Fukuoka City in the course of the time period of the Contract, representing a 62% enhance from final 12 months when it comes to the variety of help classes. The Company plans to additional promote the discount of the burden on academics in elementary faculties and the enhancement of the instruction system for kids.

Contract Overview

• Client: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
• Contract Period: April 8, 2026 – February 26, 2027
• Target Schools and Scale: 43 elementary faculties in Fukuoka City 
• Number of Support Sessions: 1,757 (YoY change: 62%)
• Main Scope of Work: Pool supervision by a workforce of a number of workers members in accordance with the protection administration handbook, and help with sensible instruction

Background: Addressing Teacher Workload and Instructional Quality

Currently, few elementary faculties in Japan make use of devoted bodily schooling academics and the Ministry of Sports is selling an initiative to transition faculty membership actions to non-public sector suppliers. Leifras, which has lengthy been entrusted with supporting membership actions at elementary, junior excessive, and excessive faculties nationwide, applies its experience to help bodily schooling lessons as effectively. Following profitable implementation final summer time, the Company was re-selected by Fukuoka City this 12 months to offer help for swimming lessons, persevering with its efforts to create a greater setting for bodily schooling lessons.

Scope of Support: Increased Support Sessions Across Schools

Under the Contract, the Company will dispatch specialised instructors to elementary faculties in Fukuoka City’s West Block (Jonan-ku, Sawara-ku, and Nishi-ku). The complete variety of help classes has elevated by 675, or 62%, this 12 months, in comparison with 1,082 help classes within the earlier 12 months.

Leifras’ specialised instructors will full the Company’s coaching program in addition to commonplace first help programs performed by the Fukuoka City Fire Department. In accordance with the Company’s security administration handbook, the Company may even share info upfront with the trainer relating to the day’s lesson plan and any college students requiring particular consideration. Through this collaborative strategy, Leifras goals to make sure scholar security whereas enhancing college students’ engagement and sense of accomplishment.

About LEIFRAS Co., Ltd.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Leifras is a sports activities and social enterprise firm devoted to youth sports activities and group engagement. The Company primarily supplies companies associated to the group and operations of sports activities faculties and sports activities occasions for kids. As of December 31, 2025, Leifras was acknowledged as certainly one of Japan’s largest operators of kids’s sports activities faculties when it comes to each membership and amenities by Tokyo Shoko Research. The Company’s strategy to sports activities schooling emphasizes the event of non-cognitive abilities, following the instructing precept “acknowledge, praise, encourage, and motivate.” The holistic strategy that integrates bodily and psychological growth units Leifras aside within the trade. Building upon deep expertise and know-how in sports activities schooling, Leifras additionally operates a sturdy social enterprise sector, dispatching sports activities coaches to fulfill varied group wants with the intention to advertise bodily well being, social inclusion, and group well-being throughout completely different demographics.

For extra info, please go to the Company’s web site: https://ir.leifras.co.jp/.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements on this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements contain recognized and unknown dangers and uncertainties and are primarily based on the Company’s present expectations and projections about future occasions that the Company believes might have an effect on its monetary situation, outcomes of operations, enterprise technique, and monetary wants. Investors can discover many (however not all) of those statements by means of phrases similar to “approximates,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may,” or different comparable expressions on this press launch. The Company undertakes no obligation to replace or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to mirror subsequent occurring occasions or circumstances, or modifications in its expectations, besides as could also be required by legislation. These statements are topic to uncertainties and dangers, together with, however not restricted to, the uncertainties associated to market circumstances, and different components mentioned within the “Risk Factors” part of the registration assertion filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are affordable, it can’t guarantee you that such expectations will transform appropriate, and the Company cautions buyers that precise outcomes might differ materially from the anticipated outcomes and encourages buyers to overview different components which will have an effect on its future leads to the registration assertion and different filings with the SEC. Additional components are mentioned within the Company’s filings with the SEC, which can be found for overview at www.sec.gov.

For extra info, please contact:

LEIFRAS Co., Ltd.
Investor Relations Department
Email: [email protected]

Ascent Investor Relations LLC
Tina Xiao
Phone: +1-646-932-7242
Email: [email protected]

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