中日两国交往发展史堪称国际关系史之最，两千余年的历史纵深和客观史实，足以满足归纳两国关系历史发展规律的必要条件。从大历史的视角出发，历史宿命的国家主义与古为今用的天下主义、忧患意识外溢的日本对外侵略与中国改朝换代、“天朝礼治体系”与“大东亚秩序”两种东亚秩序的建构、战争发源地朝鲜半岛的地缘政治力学作用、两国政治领导人的历史担当与义利观等要素，构成中日关系历史哲学演绎的主要范畴，从中得出的规律性与合理性结论，理应成为中日关系“以史为鉴”的重要内涵。

The development history of the Sino-Japan relations is quite outstanding in the whole history of international relations. Objective historical facts in over 2000-year history provide an essential condition to conclude the law of historical development of the relations between these two countries. From the perspective of macro-history, nationalism that insists historical fatalism and Tian-xia doctrine that advocates applying traditional ideas for today’s seek, Japan’s invasion to foreign countries with the anxious consciousness of hardship, China’s frequent changes of dynasties in history, the construction of the two East Asian orders of the “rites system of the Celestial Empire” and “Great East Asian Order”, the “mechanical effect” of geopolitics on war haunted Korean Peninsula, and other elements such as the historical responsibilities and ideas of morals and profits of the two nations political leaders, form the main paradigm of philosophical development of the Sino-Japan relations. Meanwhile, the laws and reasonable conclusions drawn from the paradigm include important connotation of “learning from history” for Sino-Japan relations.