Tokyo’s Stalker-Scholar of the Month
American professor arrested for stalking woman in Tokyo
JapanToday.com, Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 21:18 EDT, TOKYO –A 59-year-old American professor at Atomi University in Tokyo was arrested on Thursday for stalking a 23-year-old woman on more than 10 occasions. The professor, identified as Christopher Drake, was arrested for trying to break into the woman’s apartment on the night of Sept 15…When Drake was arrested, he had a rope and was wearing a mask over his eyes and was ringing the doorbell. “...more…
I cannot tell which is funnier: professor Christopher Drake as the Batman and as Scholar of the Month.
Even if Professor Drake was “wearing a mask over his eyes” as the newspaper describes, he would not be disguised in any Japanese neighborhood. Ahhh, it was romantic in him that was his downfall. According to the report, “‘I fell in love with her at first sight and I just wanted to meet her,’ Drake was quoted as saying by police. ” This serves a warning to any Japanese scholar wannabe of what studying Nihongo will do to you, hee, hee.
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September 29th, 2006 at 9:56 am
According to google, Drake has published many papers on education and human rights such as:
1.Values Education and Life-wide Learning / Learning about Values …
by Christopher Drake
2. Paper for the Sixteenth Annual Conference of The Hong Kong Educational Research Association “Exploring New Frontiers in Education”, Hong Kong, China, October 1999…
3.Values Education and Human Rights: Living Values Education in Asia…
by Christopher Drake
Published in Human Rights Education in Asian Schools, Volume Four, March 2001, by Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center, Japan
4.Values Education: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality….
by Christopher Drake
This paper was presented at the Eighth UNESCO-APEID International Conference on Education, under Innovations in Secondary Education: Meeting the Needs of Adolescents and Youth in Asia and the Pacific. The conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand, 26th to 29th November 2002.
5. Classrooms as Value-based Environments for Teaching and Learning - PDF format 206 kb
by Christopher Drake