The departments of maritime technology at Five “Kosen” schools, or colleges of technology, and four organizations in the maritime field worked together over the course of 10 years to reform maritime education and training. With the initial aim of reviving and changing the educational capabilities of maritime educational organizations that had been losing direction following the long recession, these efforts not only led to the improvement of educational capabilities at the schools but also spurred the creation of a network between industry and academia for human resource development in the maritime field, paving the way for a new educational system to train maritime technology specialists for the future of maritime shipping.