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'You are my god', Japan's PM tells British rock band Deep Purple

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Japanese PM Takaichi meets British rock band Deep Purple
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Japanese PM Takaichi meets British rock band Deep Purple
Hard rock enthusiast Sanae Takaichi beamed as she met the rockers in her Tokyo office.
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Built4dominance Apr 12, 2026 +99
"Ultra-xenophobe calls British dudes her god". Oh the irony.
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zubuneri Apr 12, 2026 +29
It doesn’t need to make sense for rightwingers, no matter what the country is.  Takaichi is popular with Japan’s right wing for her staunch anti-foreigner stance.  Yet she is constantly fellating an orange foreigner on the daily
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Disgruntled-Cacti Apr 12, 2026 +3
It’s like how western ultranationalists often love Japan and are weaboos. I guess in Japan they are Anglophiles lmao.
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Public-Position7711 Apr 12, 2026 +1
They’re politicians. Are you new? You do everything at your job you said you’d do during your interview?
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8hotsteamydumplings Apr 12, 2026 +34
Deep purple is perhaps the most loved foreign hard rock/metal band in Japan. They really like the blackmore style of guitar playing
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Not_Now_ImStargazing Apr 12, 2026 +9
They also love Rainbow, for…obvious reasons
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Efficient-Energy-678 Apr 12, 2026 +4
Love Rainbow!!!
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Not_Now_ImStargazing Apr 12, 2026 +3
me too! Although I gotta admit I've listened only to the Dio-era. Still, what an era it is: Stargazer, A light in the Black, Tarot Woman, The temple of the King, Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, Catch the Rainbow (+ that sweet JoJo reference), Gates of Babylon...and literally EVERY song in those 3 albums...I could list 100 compliments, so I'll summarize: **THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL.**
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Septentrion_9 Apr 12, 2026 +1
Yo. Have you heard a You Oshima guitar solo?
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jcadsexfree Apr 12, 2026
Deep Purple = heavy metal in Eastern Europe / Japan Black Sabbath = heavy metal in Britain Led Zeppelin = heavy metal in America
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run-on_sentience Apr 12, 2026 +22
No one is America thinks of Led Zeppelin as heavy metal except 80-year-old Mormon ladies. It's Classic Rock.
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toadfan64 Apr 13, 2026 +2
It's hard rock. Classic Rock isn't a genre, lol.
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run-on_sentience Apr 13, 2026 +1
If it sounds hard it's because you didn't blow the dust off the vinyl.
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jcadsexfree Apr 12, 2026 -4
You are incorrect - I am an 80 year old Mormon *man*. My comment is in the context of '70's and '80's and I ***am*** older than you !!
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Septentrion_9 Apr 12, 2026 +2
Sigh = Epic Unclassifiable Japanese Metal 🤘
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reesly Apr 12, 2026 +15
Made in Japan is an iconic live album.
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MachoManRandyRanch Apr 12, 2026 +5
No I get it. I’m more of a polytheistic guy I pray to the Dan and lemmy
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CazzoBandito Apr 12, 2026 +5
Seems like a omen when this band shows up in headlines with a world leader around Q1. See below article from 2008: https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/deep-purple-perform-for-russias-future-president-gtkhz70sn8x
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FizzyFuzzyBign-Buzzy Apr 12, 2026 +5
They like your music, just don’t want you living in their country. How rich. I’m sure the PM is a very smart woman….
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Conan-Da-Barbarian Apr 12, 2026 +11
Good for her, she found god. Just like the Fray.
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GreyTigerFox Apr 12, 2026 +7
They’re Highway Stars.
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DifferenceNo5715 Apr 12, 2026 +5
Their woman from Tokyo
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kyngslinn Apr 12, 2026 +2
Did I die in 2019? What the f*** is even happening anymore?
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Suspicious_Safe7647 Apr 12, 2026 +2
That is certainly a over the top compliment
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Empty_Sea9 Apr 13, 2026 +2
They’re pretty big in Japan. They did the boss song for Blue Dragon (a Dragon Quest spiritual sequel)
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Clear-Weather-6060 Apr 13, 2026 +2
She must be his Woman From Tokyo.
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Groxee Apr 12, 2026 +4
I saw the thumbnail and thought she was talking to trump for a sec…
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Tomsoup4 Apr 12, 2026 +2
anybody better than trumplethinskin
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mynewusernamedodgers Apr 12, 2026 +6
She is the female version.
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worksnake Apr 13, 2026 +2
That one dude from Hunter x Hunter had an ability he named Deep Purple. It makes sense to me that their legacy in Japan is larger than I understood.
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VirginiaLuthier Apr 12, 2026 +2
Are any of the members she would have heard still with the band?
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catfishman Apr 12, 2026 +3
Yeah, most of the band: Ian Gillian, Ian Paice, and Roger Glover.
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