Construction Of The Sino-japanese Relations In The Perspective: Current Situation And Countermeasures

Sino-Japan relations are one of most important bilateral relations for each other. However, current Sino-Japan relations are worsening. Bilateral political relations are fearfully cold, Exchange visits of leaders of two sides already have broken off for four years and more; Economic exchanges and trades of two sides are greatly frequent, but there is a possibility to cooling; Civilian relations of two sides are also bad, populace of two nations come into being ill will to each other, bilateral friendship are declining. In these circumstances, it is more necessary to attach importance to study Sino-Japan relations.By reading former works on Sino-Japan relations, we can find that most of domestic and foreign scholars emphasize particularly on Realism, liberalism and internal factors, but these paradigms and visual angles are not all-sided and can't comprehensively explain Sino-Japan relations, so we need some new paradigms and theories to study Sino-Japan relations furthermore. In this paper, the writer attempt to use constructivism to study Sino-Japan relations.Constructivism is one of mainstream theories in west international relations (IR); it has particular sight that it introduces social studying methods into IR. Constructivism looks upon culture as its central concept. Culture construct identities and interests of nations, identity and interest result in actions of nations. In addition, the culture of constructivism emphasized is international system culture (shared culture) that is made in the process of national interaction. Being the same as neo-realism, constructivism emphasizes factors of system, so it also is a systematic theory.Making use of constructivism to explain actualities of Sino-Japan relations, we can find that the essential of Sino-Japan conflicts are differences in role-cognizing of two sides and lack of trust. Pattern of Sino-Japan relations made in 1970s is already not content with the need of China and Japan when their roles have changed, so, for improving Sino-Japan relations, we should begin from cultivating good shared culture between China and Japan, make great efforts to turn the current worsening trend of Sino-Japan relations, turn negative competitions as active good interactions. If China and Japan can keep the good interactions some intensity and time to make active shared culture,Sino-Japan relations will have a fundamental change.