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The purpose of this article is to analyze the land registers of Changwon-Gun by the Japanese Imperialism in the land survey period. The registers had made in 10 kinds of books by the processes of the preparation, survey, and enforcement. The index map for the taxable lands, the original drawings, and the certified copies of land registers are mainly analyzed in this article. The main thesis of this paper is about that how the way the Japanese colonial government had grasped lands changed and what was it like, and so on. Here are some conclusions from these analyses. First, the Japanese colonial government had qualified legal status to the conventional ownerships. In result, the great landlord like Murai had the most benefit. Second, Non-taxable lands were entered in the registers newly. Consequently farmers were deprived of their reclamation rights and the poor Korean payers were burdened with a tax heavier than before. Third, the absolute area measures and a method of drawing lines were introduced to indicate the real conditions of lands in the drawing sheets. By this new way, larger lands brought much more profits. Forth, the Japanese Imperialism funded to some landed capitalists and reinforce its power by using the real-estate registration system. Some of Korean landowners took some advantage by using it. Eventually this land management system was succeeded to the Republic of Korea as it was.