2011年日本对内对外的政治经济社会等关系都处于继续调整中。受“3·11”东日本大地震及核泄漏事件的冲击，日本降低姿态，以缓解、磨合的方式继续寻求其新的地区关系定位。中日关系政治上从上年“撞船”事件的冰点回调，但日本并没有完成对华关系重新定位的进程，因此缓解与磨合成为2011年中日关系的主线，而磨合并不等于缓和。在经济上，日本通过实施新的经济发展战略，尝试进行产业结构与产业布局的调整，既要强化与中国的经济联系，又要维护其在亚洲国际分工中的优势地位。在社会关系上，震后日本民众对华心态复归冷淡。
In 2011, Japan is adjusting internal and external relations of politics, economic, society and more. Because of the impact of 3.11 east Japan earthquake and nuclear leak, Japan has lower the position, trying to build new position of regional relations by using "relieve and running in". Since the "Boat Crash incident" of last year, the freezing point of politics relation between China and Japan has relieved, but Japan did not finish re-locating relations with China. For that reason, "relieve and running in" become the principal line in 2011, but "running in" does not equal "relieve". By implement new strategy of economy development, Japan trying to adjusting industrial structure and layout, at same time to maintain the advantage in Asian division of production as well as improve the economic relation with China. At the social level, the anti-China attitude among Japanese people is re-emerging.
