Background
Shiro Sakurai was born in 1907 in Toyama, Japan.
Shiro Sakurai was born in 1907 in Toyama, Japan.
Graduated from Agricultural Civil Engineering Department of Tokyo University (1931).
Served as engineer at Cultivated Fields Section of Gifu, Tochigi and Okayama Prefectural governments, chief of Cultivated Fields Section of Mie Prefecture, director of Agricultural Land Department of Wakayama Prefectural Government and chief of Land Improvement and Planning Sections of Agriculture Ministry and thereafter became director of Construction Department of Agricultural Land Bureau of Agriculture & Forestry Ministry (1950) and director of Nogyo Doboku-kai (Agricultural & Civil Engineering Society). Toured U.S.A. inspecting agricultural civil engineering technique (1950).