The cadets of Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) Class of ¬2020 were welcomed by their Japanese sponsors from the International Mariners Management Association of Japan (IMMAJ) last July 5, 2016 at MAAP JSU-IMMAJ Campus, Mariveles, Bataan. The IMMAJ scholars of the MAAP class of 2020 is composed 53 engine cadets and 107 engine cadets.

Capt. Teodoro B. Quijano, Training Committee Vice Chairman of IMMAJ-PJMCC; Mr. Shunsuke Imada, Vice Chairman of IMMAJ and Capt. Shigeru Nemoto, Chairman of Training Committee in Tokyo led the welcoming ceremony organized by the IMMAJ-PJMCC Foundation Inc.