That gave me whiplash when I first saw it, but it worked! And it was an official cover!
youtu.be/-wcqoOaoqtQ?...

Isn't it because the emperor had a more ritual role than anything else for much of Japanese history? Not to put too much faith in the words of 17th century Englishmen, but when John Saris visited in the 1620s he thought that the emperor was like a pope, with the shogun being the real monarch

Funnily enough didn't, that's an early modern interpolation

I've noticed this, a lot of Zoomers express antisemitism in the language of like, Malaysians. The Kpop fandom especially is dominated by Indo and Malaysian girls who disseminate Protocols-level stuff all the time

This one is fake apparently

and now we're headed for Maliki III

I'm gonna be honest I thought this guy was dead for some reason, like drone striked in Kharkiv dead