These will take place at Graceland and other venues around the city.
To see the genuine articles, just cross over the road to the Graceland estate in all its white-columned glory.
The Graceland Suite is undoubtedly the most celebrated, given that it is an imitation Graceland mansion in diminutive form.
Graceland, his home and now iconic museum, has a range of celebrations planned from 7-10 January, including an auction of memorabilia, a double-bill screening of Viva Las Vegas and Jailhouse Rock, a ceremony declaring the eighth as Elvis Presley Day, and a tribute concert.
"It's going to be like Graceland".
The 2012 film "Under African Skies" revisits the controversy that followed Paul Simon, a American singer, when he violated a UN-supported boycott by performing and recording with South African musicians for his Grammy award-winning "Graceland" album in 1986.
Thirty miles from Graceland a new Las Vegas has sprouted in the Delta, and lights blaze along the Mississippi river.
Mr Koizumi spent much of the summer on swansong trips abroad, including one to Graceland, with President George Bush.
Now, it transpires, the highlight of the trip will be a pilgrimage with Mr Bush to Graceland, Elvis's home outside Memphis.Fair enough: Mr Koizumi is an ardent Elvis fan.
As any visitor to Graceland knows, taking care of business is one of America's strengths.
Graceland, Elvis's home from 1957 until his squalid death in the bathroom, drew 700,000 people last year.
