The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Blue Impulse aerobatics team flies past Tokyo Tower in Tokyo. From 12:40 to 1 pm the Kawasaki T4 aircraft of the Japanese Air Self Defence Force aerobatics display team circled the major sites of the city along with hospitals caring for Corona patients, trailing white smoke, as a "thank you" to healthcare workers for their efforts during the two-month-long state of emergency declared by the Japanese government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which ended on June 1st Despite Japan appearing to have avoided the high infection and mortality rates of so


The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Blue Impulse aerobatics team flies past Tokyo Tower in Tokyo. From 12:40 to 1 pm the Kawasaki T4 aircraft of the Japanese Air Self Defence Force aerobatics display team circled the major sites of the city along with hospitals caring for Corona patients, trailing white smoke, as a "thank you" to healthcare workers for their efforts during the two-month-long state of emergency declared by the Japanese government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which ended on June 1st Despite Japan appearing to have avoided the high infection and mortality rates of some countries during the first wave of the crisis, many areas in Tokyo and across the country have seen businesses shuttered and closed, the cancelling of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and increasing numbers of infections as people went back to more normal life after the shutdown. A second wave of the disease is expected.


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