Yumio Sakurai

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.

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 (publisher) 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)