LOL! He's just eccentric enough to do it, too. Check out this photo. It was used for the jacket of a charity CD released in Japan. I don't know if it's an authentic photo or a Photoshopped one. Koizumi is fun-loving enough to allow his photo to be digitally inserted next to the King (or maybe he really did meet the King?).
Yahoo caption: In this photo released by BMG Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi smiles next to Elvis Presley in the jacket of this limited edition charity CD that featured 25 Elvis songs personally selected by Koizumi as his favorites. Japanese fans snapped up all 200,000 copies of the Elvis CD, said Takuya Matsuyama of BMG Japan, which released the disk in 2002. When Koizumi tours Graceland later this month June, 2006 with U.S. President George W. Bush, he will be representing a big constituency _ Japan has droves of Elvis Presley fans, and the biggest Elvis fan club in all of East Asia. Koizumi, of course, is the most famous.