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
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...
a PhD in Agriculture, also from the (University of Tokyo and an honorary doctorate from the National University of Vietnam .
[ ^ Yumio Sakurai, Chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Researchers Conference, died ''Asahi Shimbun'' December 19, 2012]
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" (
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
(lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...
2000)
* "History of Southeast Asia" (The
Open University of Japan
is a distance learning university which has students from all over Japan; it accepted its first students in 1985.
History
Although founded by the national government initiative with a single-issue law and heavily subsidized by the government, i ...
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
was a Japanese historian who specialized in the study of Thailand.
Biography
Ishii was born in Tokyo, Japan. After excepting a recommendation by his teacher in learning a Thai language, he went to Thailand. There, he was enrolled into the Chulal ...
) "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
is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition a ...
, 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
is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.Louis Frédéric, ''Japan Encyclopedia'', Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409.
Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel '' ...
, 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 Sedes, History of Indochina Civilization (
Misuzu Shobo , 1969)
Footnotes
External links
"The Yumio SAKURAI Collection"
1945 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Japanese historians
21st-century Japanese historians
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
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