Aozora (song)

was the eighth single by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese band The Blue Hearts

The Blue Hearts

was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. In 2003, they were ranked by HMV Japan as number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

. The song was recut from the group's third album Train-Train

Train-Train (album)

is the third album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts.-Track listing:#"Train-Train" #"Merry Go Round" #"Denkō Sekka" #"Missile" #"Boku no Migite"...

. This song was written in opposition to the continuing apartheid of the time. Mashima said that the actual reading for the tile is Aoi Sora. "Heisei no Blues" (平成のブルース), the B-side track, was not on the album Train-Train.

The song was covered by Miwa

Miwa (singer)

Miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "Don't Cry Anymore", used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi.- Biography :...

 in 2010, for use as the ending theme song of the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori's novel Colorful.