Over issues like textbooks, historical perception, and the prime minister's visits to Yasukuni Shrine, Japan-China relations are in troubled waters.

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Textbook-problem [or-や] historical-perception, Yasukuni-Shrine [toward-への] prime-minister [attributive-の] worship-visit [and-など-で], Japan-China relations [at-に] wind-and-waves [subject-が] are-rising-[continuous-ている].

News prose. 波風が立つ ('wind and waves rise,' meaning 'turmoil, troubled waters, friction') is a set idiom for diplomatic or interpersonal tension. 歴史認識 ('historical perception') is the specific term for the disputed interpretation of WWII and colonial history. 参拝 ('shrine/temple visit'). The list of issues captures the perennial friction points in Sino-Japanese relations.