Royal Road, Paradise

"The English title from the website is “Royal Road, Paradise”, which comes from splitting up the Japanese title into its parts, “王道” (royal road) and “楽土” (paradise). But taken as a whole, the phrase “王道楽土" can mean something like “Arcadia” (in the utopian sense). Interestingly, the phrase was a concept Imperial Japan used when it set up the puppet state Manchukuo in the 1930s. The idea was that, instead of being governed by Western force, the area would be ruled by Eastern virtue and become a utopia—an idea that was promoted with Japanese propaganda. (In reality the goal was probably to establish a base for further military expansion of the Empire onto the continent and to secure economically valuable resources desperately needed for the growing Empire.) The puppet ruler of Manchukuo was the last Chinese Emperor, who apparently tried to flee to Japan to surrender to the Americans after the Soviets invaded Manchukuo in 1945, and ended up being captured by the Soviets. While this song is probably not specifically about Manchukuo, the title and the idea of a ruler fleeing as his country falls apart may well be an allusion to it."