A quick look at the Japanese ranks in Satake-kun's page and a quick
check in my dictionary produced the following table, which I've put up
in my LoGH page: (http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/LoGH.html)
gensui Fleet Admiral
joukyuu taishou Senior Admiral
taishou Admiral
chuujou Vice Admiral
shoushou Rear Admiral
junshou Commodore
taisa Captain
chuusa Commander
shousa Lieutenent Commander
taii Lieutenent
chuui Lieutenent Junior Grade
shoui Ensign
Notice that "tai" means "big", "chuu" means "medium", and "shou" means
"little".
> By the way, does anybody know what do you call a JunSho (Yang at the
> Beginning)?
Commodore, according to above.
Ming.
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