[2][3] He formerly served as Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Fourth Abe Cabinet.

His profile on the LDP website:[3] Sakurada is a board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020) and serves as a political adviser to the Pachinko Chain Stores Association (PCSA).

In October 2018, Sakurada entered the cabinet as the Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games.

He resigned from the post just six months later after suggesting that the re-election campaign of a ruling LDP lawmaker was of a higher priority than the 2011 earthquake and tsunami reconstruction effort.

[1][4] Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[5] Sakurada attended a meeting on March 3, 2014, to seek a review of the Kono Statement and voiced his support for the revision.