Hubungan-hubungan antara Jepang dan China memburuk di bawah mantan perdana menteri Junichiro Koizumi, yang berulangkali melakukan kunjungan kontroversi ke kuil Yushukuni di Tokyo, yang diabadikan kepada para korban perang Jepang.
Relations between Japan and China were badly strained under former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi who repeatedly visited a controversial shrine to Japanese war dead.