Abstract:

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.