("Commander of the Forces")'s a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. (External Link) The modern rank's equivalent to a Generalissimo. As a title, it's the short form of, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867. A shogun's office or administration's known in English as a "shogunate". In Japanese it was known as which literal… (More on Shogun)