‘Geography’ has been designated as a high school compulsory subject in 2018 revised Japanese curriculum guidelines. This is regarded as the sign of reinforcing the refutation for the subject of geography as school education in Japan. As this study recognizes the refutation, it aims at revealing the characteristics of 2018 revised Japanese curriculum guidelines based on the perspective of the concept of ‘how to see and think’ and territory education. The results are as follows. Firstly, the concept of ‘geographically how to see and think’ plays a role in transferring domain-general knowledge to domain-specific knowledge, so called geographical knowledge. Specifically, this was given its body by providing geo-educational questions which stands on the geographic facts, ideas and principles. Secondly, Dokdo gained more important position compared with the northern territory which has been historically treated as the core content in Japanese territory education. Also Senkaku Islands, occupied by Japan, began to be taught as the area which has a non-territorial issue, called the negative statement.