![]() Midshipman and Warrant Officer's collar insignia are the same (both were treated as officer-equivalent), but in detail, the midshipman's position is above Warrant Officer. The rank Commodore was not established but the Captain who was commanding the central ship in the fleet, usually close to being promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, or acting as the unit commander (which was usually held by a Rear-Admiral) nominally became a flag officer by raising the "Commodore Flag". The distinction between Special Duty Officers and Regular/Reserve Officers was also highlighted in the rank insignia (see the table for details). Typically the ranks discriminated in a way that the priority of taking command for Special Duty Officers was lower than that of Regular Officers or Reserve Officers. Special Duty Officers ( Japanese: 特務士官, romanized: Tokumu-shikan) were the officers with the rank of Lieutenant or below, who were promoted from the rank of Warrant Officer (starting from the enlisted ranks). Reserve Officers ( Japanese: 予備将校, romanized: Yobi-shōkō) were university or college graduates, as opposed to going through the naval academy. Regular Officers ( Japanese: 将校, romanized: Shōkō) were graduates of Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. However, this pronunciation difference was not officially enacted. ![]() The navy pronounced it as Dai, while the army pronounced it as Tai. ![]() There was a minor difference in pronunciation of character 大 for Navy Lieutenant and Navy Captain. The navy would prefix the common rank names with "navy" ( Japanese: 海軍, romanized: Kaigun), while the army would prefix them with "army" ( Japanese: 陸軍, romanized: Rikugun). Commissioned officer ranks Ranks Īll commissioned officer rank names were the same as their army counterparts. ![]() Thus, for example, a captain in the navy shared the same rank designation as that of a colonel in the army: Taisa (colonel), so the rank of Rikugun Taisa denoted an army colonel, while the rank of Kaigun daisa denoted a naval captain. The officer rank names were used for both the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy, the only distinction being the placement of the word Rikugun (army) or Kaigun (navy) before the rank. The ranks were inspired by the ranks of the Royal Navy. ![]() The Ranks of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the rank insignia of the Imperial Japanese Navy, used from its creation in 1868, until its dissolution in 1945 following the Surrender of Japan in World War II. ![]()
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