Yumio Sakurai

Yumio Sakurai (桜井 由躬雄; 1945-2012) was a Japanese historian who specialized in Japanese history and history of Southeast Asia.

Sakurai Yumio
Born	(1945-01-31)January 31, 1945 Tsuruga, Fukui, Empire of Japan
Died	December 17, 2012(2012-12-17) (aged 67) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo (1967) University of Kyoto (1977)
Scientific career
Fields	History of Japan
Institutions	University of Tokyo

Early life

Samurai attended the University of Tokyo and obtained a PhD in Literature and also a PhD in Agriculture. He also received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Vietnam.^[1]

Publications

Author

• "The Formation of Vietnamese villages.: Village Shared Fields = Historical Development of Condien System" =ベトナム村落の形成——村落共有田=コンディエン制の史的展開 Betonamu sonraku no keisei) (Sōbunsha, 1987)
• "The Melancholy of Hanoi" (Mekong [ja] 1989)
• ("Green Field: Walking the History of Southeast Asia" =『緑色の野帖——東南アジアの歴史を歩く』 (Mekong 1997)
• "People living in rice: the baldness of the sun, the kindness of forests and water" = 『米に生きる人々——太陽のはげまし、森と水のやさしさ』 Shueisha 2000)
• "History of Southeast Asia" (The Open University of Japan 2002)
• "Pre-modern Southeast Asia" (The Open University of Japan 2006)

Coauthor or co-editor

• (with Yoshiaki Ishizawa) "Modern History of Southeast Asia (3) Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos". (東南アジア現代史（3）ヴェトナム・カンボジア・ラオス; editor: Yoshiaki Ishizawa) (Yamakawa Publishing Co., Ltd., 1977) (Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1977)
• (Yoneo Ishii) "Visual Version" World History (12) Formation of the Southeast Asian World "(Kodansha, 1985)
• (Yoshiaki Ishizawa, Noboru Kiriyama) "World History from the Region (4) Southeast Asia" (Asahi Shimbun, 1993)

Editor

• "Vietnam I Want to Know More" (Koubundou Publishers, 1989 / 2nd Edition, 1995)
• "Iwanami Lecture: History of Southeast Asia (4) Development of Early Modern Southeast Asian Countries" (Iwanami Shoten, 2001)

Co-editor

• (Tadayo Watabe) "Rice Culture in Gangnam, China: Its Interdisciplinary Study" (Japan Broadcast Publishing Association, 1984)
• (Yoneo Ishii) "History of Southeast Asia (1) Continental Region" (Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1999)
• (Shiro Momoki) "Vietnamese Encyclopedia" (Dohosha, 1999)

Translation Editor

• George Cœdès, History of Indochina Civilization (Misuzu Shobo, 1969)