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Sakurai Yoshihide, 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)
Selected Publications by Dr. Yoshihide:
An Illegal Missionary Work Lawsuit and Exit
Counseling for Unification Church Members.
Cultic Studies Review, 3(3).
Yoshihide, Sakurai. 2002a,”Damage Suffered from ‘Cults’ and
the Rights of Self-Decision: The Case Study of the Suit of the Unification
Church in Japan” (in Japanese), Contemporary Sociological Studies, Vol
12:68-81.
Yoshihide, Sakurai. 2002b, “‘Cult Controversy’ in Japan:
The Agenda of Cult Studies in Sociology of Religion, pp. 100-118 in Religion
and Social Problems: Cults Problems Considered. The Research Institute of
Religion and Culture, Nanzan University: Seikyu-sha. (in Japanese)
Yoshihide, Sakurai. 2003. “‘Mind Control Controversy’ and
Trials: ‘Coercive Persuasion’ and ‘Tort Liability’ Reconsidered” (in Japanese),
pp. 59-175 in The Annual Report of Cultural Science 109. Graduate School
of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo (in Japanese)
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