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
United States v. Sun Myung Moon to six months imprisonment which he served at Danbury along with Moon. Kenneth Briggs, former religion editor of the New York Times, wrote: Ed Farmer, a fellow inmate, said: While Moon was in prison, Unification Church members launched a public-relations campaign. Booklets, letters and videotapes were mailed to approximately 300,000 Christian leaders in the United States. Many signed petitions protesting the government's case. Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in defense of Moon were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Among the other people who protested