An officer enters for a _kika-no_ (engineer) by competitive examination
identical with that for those of military rank already described.
Those who pass are sent to Yokosuka, where they spend four years
training in the technique of their profession. After that they join
ships, having equivalent rank with, but after, the military branch,
according to the table on a later page.
Engineers in the Japanese Navy have power to punish their own men,
being executive in their own department. They are not, however, granted
military titles.