Yumio Sakurai

Sakurai Yumio (桜井由躬雄)
Born(1945-01-31)January 31, 1945
DiedDecember 17, 2012(2012-12-17) (aged 67)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo (1967)
University of Kyoto (1977)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of Japan
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo

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

University of Tokyo, He obtained a PhD in Literature from the University of Tokyo a PhD in Agriculture, also from the (University of Tokyo and an honorary doctorate from the National University of Vietnam.[1]

Publications[edit]

Author[edit]

  • 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" (Mekon 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』 (Mekon 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[edit]

  • (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[edit]

  • "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)

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Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Yumio Sakurai, Chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Researchers Conference, died Asahi Shimbun December 19, 2012

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