Indeed, domestic politicking seems to be at least as important to Japan’s leaders as to South Koreas’s or China’s. Koizumi’s visit to the shrine, officially presented as that of a private citizen, was intended to impress the Japanese public, regardless of its effects abroad.
事实上，与韩国或者中国相比，国内政治对日本领袖来讲似乎更为重要。小泉靖国神社之行的公开说法是私人参拜，目的是讨好日本公众，而不顾国外会产生怎样的反响。