Yoshihide
Sakurai, Ph.D.,
is Professor of Sociology, Graduate
School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido,
Japan. He is also an executive board member of the Japan Cult Recovery
Council. He has been conducting research on the cult controversy in Japan,
especially the Unification Church of Japan. (http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~n16260/eng/index.html)
(saku@let.hokudai.ac.jp)