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 the government's prosecution of Moon were Harvey Cox, a Professor of Divinity at Harvard and Eugene McCarthy, United States Senator and former Democratic Party presidential candidate. Supporters regard the tax case as politically motivated. The prosecutors offered to drop the case in return that Moon surrendered his green card, which he chose not to do. The official website of the American Unification Church, unification.org, says: A United States Senate subcommittee, chaired by Senator Orrin Hatch, conducted its own investigation into Reverend Moon's tax case and published its findings in a report which concluded: Jeremiah S. Gutman, president of the New