What a wacky guy Junichiro Koizumi is. When he's not battling bureaucracy or trying to revive the ailing economy, Japan's unprecedentedly popular prime minister likes nothing better than to chill out and listen to the music of the King: Elvis Presley.

Junichiro Koizumi poses with his dead idol, Elvis.

In keeping with his self-described henjin (eccentric) personality, Koizumi has taken the unusual step of lending his name to a collection of his fave Elvis tunes.