This paper reexamines Ukita Kazutami’s “ethical imperialism” and clarifies its logic of territorialization by analyzing his discourses on ethics, sovereignty, and territory. Focusing on his interpretation of Aristotle’s zoon politikon, his translation of Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke’s Militaristic Politik, and his lectures on sociology, it identifies an imperial spatial order centered on the “unification of the nation-state” and “discovery of sovereignty.” It further demonstrates how, after the First World War, Ukita’s New Asianism employed territorial exchange and institutional designs of confederation/association to transform Asia into an “area” through which the political logic of imperial territorial order unfolded.