中日两国都小心谨慎地对待这次访问，世界其他国家也一直在密切关注这次访问的行程，其原因显而易见：过去10年来的中日关系一直充满了各种各样的动荡，这恐怕还是最缓和的说法。
The trip is being carefully managed by both countries, and is being watched closely around the world, with good reason: Sino-Japanese relations over the past decade have been turbulent, to say the least.