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In 1980, when few Americans knew the meaning of toro and omakase, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, spoke to dozens of his followers in the Grand Ballroom of the New Yorker Hotel.\n\nIt was said Moon could see the future, visit you in dreams and speak with the spirit world, where Jesus and Buddha, Moses and Washington, caliphs and emperors and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and even God himself would all proclaim his greatness.\n\n\u201cYou,\u201d Moon later recalled telling his followers in the ballroom, \u201care the pioneers of the fishing business \u2014 the seafood business. Go forward, pioneer the way and bring back prosperity.\u201d They did. Today a business they grew and shaped is arguably America\u2019s only nationwide fresh-seafood company of any kind. It specializes in sushi, and its name is True World Foods.\n\nOne of Moon\u2019s daughters, In Jin Moon, once asked in a sermon whether their movement really made a difference. \u201cIn an incredible way, we did,\u201d she said: Her father created True World Foods. \u201cWhen he initiated that project,\u201d she went on, \u201cnobody knew what sushi was or what eating raw fish was about.\u201d Her father, she concluded, \u201cgot the world to love sushi.\u201d