My Space explains it. It is, however, an "open secret" and is discussed in interviews and on other websites. Credited group members are Koneko (vocals), Jo Ashito (vocals, guitar) and Jason Arigato (bass guitar). Their website features the following description "translated from the japanese by arakiha miho":The band naming their persons queen of Japan was not always in the threesome they hold to their beating hearts today [..] After many tours of hard sexual energy and costume change the queen of Japan became known well across country and town never giving in to a life of modest no glamour [...] Schools will replace sexual theory lessons with headrush album in order to save the money of tax pay. Queen of Japan influence politics and reforming. Everybody loves everybody and fun and feeling.This (pseudo?) Japlish explanation is also given on Queen of Japan's page on My Space. Much of the whole text is even less decipherable than the quote given here and seems designed or at least included to obfuscate Queen of Japan's identity and perhaps even to frustrate attempts at further inquiry. It does, however, note "They are a trio that pretended to be from Japan and are doing fab cover with disco!" which seems to indicate this text does come from a real third-party source rather than being entirely fabricated by the band to enhance the Japanese illusion of what Platzgumer's website calls "the fake-identity supergroup" Queen of Japan. Their so-called "press release " .doc, attributed to a source in Vietnam, is almost as weird and unhelpful as the text which is quoted, in part, here. Despite the name of the band and the Japanese-sounding names (actually stage names) of its members, the group has no direct connections to Japan and no member of the trio is of Japanese ethnicity. Catriona Shaw (a.k.a. Koneko, Miss le Bomb), a Scot and the youngest member of the band, is the lead singer and was hailed as a "new exceptional singer". The first Queen of Japan CD "Mercury Rising" only features Platzgumer and Shaw as a duo. Her vocal talents are also featured on the CD Miss Me credited as "HP:CS" (Hans Platzgumer:Catriona Shaw) as well as with Electronicat. Hans Platzgumer (a.k.a. Jo Ashito, Separator), is an Austrian-born musician and music producer and lead guitarist/backing singer. He is co-founder (with Andi Pümpel) of the Grammy-nominated New York City band HP Zinker in