근대 지리학적 영토 개념 수용에 대한 소고 - 근대 일본의 사례를 중심으로 -

This study examines the issues of acceptance and demarcation of the concept of territorial boundaries in Japan at the end of the 19th century. To this end, we first checked the traditional borders of the East. The oriental map and the concept of its boundary were different from those of the modernized West, and contained many values ​​that are not easily understood by today's standards. By the end of the 19th century, Japan began to actively embrace Western study of geography. Such acceptance of Western geography is intertwined with Japan's borders and the process of forming a modern nation. At the end of the 19th century, when examining the Hokkaido and Southern Kuril Islands issues, the territory demarcated at that time could not be said to be clearly demarcation based on latitude and longitude. The demarcation of Japan's borders appears a little more concretely in the process of later nation-state formation. From 1867 to 1873 was a period of forming a centralized state, and from 1874 to 1881 was a period of defining national borders as a nation-state. During this period, Japan had carried out expansion to absorb existing border areas and buffer zones. Japan seems to have adopted imperialist territorial expansionism while forming a nation-state.