Nowadays, this rank is conferred on a senior superintendent among police officers as well as a fire warden among the officers with rank in the Fire Fighting Head Offices of local governments, and the rank is also conferred posthumously on a chairman of the local assembly, founder of special facilities or schools as well as people who made achievements in business.
また、今日では警察官では警視正、消防吏員では消防監などがこの位に叙せられる他、市町村議会議長にあった者、特別施設や学校創立者その他、業種等で功労ある者などが没後に叙せられる。