Abstract
When an environmental history of the 20th century is compared by arranging it at each division of Ashio, Japan, and the world, the similarity is seen by the historical change. It turns out that the environmental history of Ashio is also influenced by the environmental history in the world. There are advancement and circulative in the progress of the history. There is expansion of the space of an environmental problem as advancement of the history of an environmental problem. It corresponds to internationalizaion of the present environmental problem. There are problems of mine pollution in present developing countries as circulative of the history of environmental problems. It is not the same as problems of mine pollution at the Industrial Revolution at all.
