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Self-proclaimed monarch with strange finger pose raises questions in the Kanto region<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Japan, as you\u2019re probably already aware, is a constitutional monarchy. Actual political power is held by an elected parliament and prime minister, while the emperor of Japan serves as a ceremonial symbol of the nation, its people, and its culture.<\/p>\n However, nowhere in this framework is the role of King Oyama<\/strong> defined.<\/p>\n \u25bc \u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u5927\u5c71 = King Oyama<\/p>\n Who is King Oyama?<\/strong> He\u2019s a man in a yellow sweater or sweatshirt, who\u2019s recently been appearing on publicly posted signs in Japan\u2019s eastern Kanto region, including in Tokyo. \u201cYeah, but who is<\/em> he?\u201d, you might be asking. Actually, a lot of people are asking that these days, and nobody seems to know<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We first became aware of the King Oyama signs about two weeks ago, when a friend of our Japanese-language reporter P.K. Sanjun said he\u2019d encountered one of the signs in Tokyo\u2019s Nakano Ward<\/strong>. Soon after that, P.K. saw one of the signs with his own eyes in Matsudo<\/strong>, a city in Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo\u2019s neighbor to the east. Looking online, King Oyama has also been spotted in Tokyo\u2019s Adachi and Edogawa Wards, in Kanagawa Prefecture in Yokohama\u2019s Totsuka Ward, and in Chiba in the cities of Ichikawa and Urayasu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Though the placement and orientation of the \u201cKing Oyama\u201d text differs from place to place, the signs all contain an identical photo of a large-framed man with a baseball cap on his head, a picture of an anime girl in his left hand, and his right hand\u2019s fingers arranged in a sort of semi-V-sign<\/strong>, which apparently has enough significance that the signs also need an illustrated diagram of it.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s all the signs contain. There isn\u2019t a single bit of explanatory text, any sort of copyright information, or even a QR code to scan for more information<\/strong>. It\u2019s just \u201cKing Oyama,\u201d the photo, and the finger illustration.<\/p>\n If there were only one King Oyama sign, we\u2019d probably have shrugged it off as some sort of quirky attention grab from an individual with an offbeat sense of humor. But like we said, there are at least seven King Oyama signs out there, plus the possibility of others we simply haven\u2019t stumbled across and no one else has published photos of yet. What\u2019s more, these are massive multi-story signs we\u2019re talking about<\/strong>. Whoever\/whatever King Oyama is, this is far beyond the level of an Andre the Giant Obey sticker-type unorganized phenomenon.<\/p>\n If we absolutely had to formulate a guess, we\u2019d start with the fact that the picture of the anime girl the man is holding seems to vary by sign. Since the designers seem to think that\u2019s an important bit of variation to include, the message of \u201cKing Oyama has many different pieces of hand-sized anime girl artwork\u201d seems like it could be pointing to King Oyama being a trading card shop. However, there\u2019s no current chain called King Oyama, and if the goal was to let people know that one is going to be opening soon, wouldn\u2019t it make more sense to, well, add \u201cOpening soon!\u201d and \u201ccard shop\u201d around the signs\u2019 \u201cKing Oyama\u201d text?<\/p>\n Right now, the whole thing is as baffling as the case of that guy in Japan who stole all those piano covers<\/a>, and we\u2019re still searching for clues to unravel this mystery.<\/p>\n Photos \u00a9SoraNews24<\/em> Self-proclaimed monarch with strange finger pose raises questions in the Kanto region. Japan, as you\u2019re probably already aware, is a constitutional monarchy. 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