Junko Sakurada Academy, Kinema Junpo Award, and Mainichi Film Concours. Sakurada is a member of the Unification Church founded by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul, South Korea in 1954. According to "The Washington Times", which is owned by the Unification Church affiliated News World Communications, Sakurada joined the church in 1977. In August 1992, Sakurada was married to a Japanese businessman who is also a Unification Church member and an official within the church in a Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church in Seoul, South Korea along with 10,000 other couples representing 131 nations. Sakurada said to journalists that she felt "very
Unification Church of the United States faith backgrounds were given the marriage blessing previously given only to HSA-UWC members. In 2009 Sun Myung Moon's daughter In Jin Moon became president of the FFWPU of the United States. She worked to modernise FFWPU's worship style in an effort to involve younger members. In 2014 FFWPU sponsored a 43-day bus tour of the United States for its members which included visits to each of Moon's original holy grounds. In 2015 it opened a conference center in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2016 a study sponsored by the Unification Theological Seminary found that American FFWPU members were divided in their