Stalker-Scholar of the Month

[Taro Toporific]

American professor arrested for stalking woman in Tokyo
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. "....

Also see: Scholar of the Month

[dimwit]

Jeez you beat me to the post Taro. My only comment is that maybe if he didn't look like a hillbilly he get laid a little more often.

[Taro Toporific]

... maybe if he didn't look like a hillbilly he get laid a little more often.

Even if Professor Drake was "wearing a mask over his eyes" I doubt he would be disguised in any Japanese neighborhood. Ahhh, it was romantic in him that was his downfall: "I fell in love with her at first sight and I just wanted to meet her," Drake was quoted as saying by police.

[sublight]

My only comment is that maybe if he didn't look like a hillbilly he get laid a little more often.

I get... uh, I mean, he get's laid plenty. The ladies find the beard
to be rather distinguished. From what I've heard, that is...

[Blah Pete]

I used to think any foreigner could get laid in Japan. I think I have seen proof that this is not the case.

[Greji]

I used to think any foreigner could get laid in Japan. I think I have seen proof that this is not the case.

Agreed Pete. I don't belive that boy could get laid in a five dollar Whore House with a fifty dollar bill.

[dimwit]

I think it is just the homeless person beard that is a impediment. Japanese women have enough trouble with neatly trimed beards as my own subjective expereiences demonstrate, but when you have and mental illness style facial hair (a) it makes you look about 10 years older than you are (b) women don't want to get anywhere near it.

[Greji]

(a) it makes you look about 10 years older than you are (b) women don't want to get anywhere near it.

I don't know about down in your neck of the woods Dimmer, but the gals in downtown Tokyo tend to look at how nicely the entries on your ginko tsucho line up and how thick your wallet is as compared to the picture, or dates written on your driver's license. If the old goat takes her to somewhere considered a bit upscale or kokyuu, the New York Grill, anywhere on the Hotel circuit, or even Nobu's, beard or not, he's going to get rode hard and put away wet. On the other hand, if he takes her to some of the basement joints in Roppongi, he probably won't get a handshake at the door and if he hangs around, he might earn the trip to the koban.

[Mulboyne]

Apropos nothing:

I met someone in a bar in Tokyo who looked a lot like this bloke but they aren't the same man. I talked to him for a while and realized that, although he was drunk, he was good company and had some fascinating observations about Japan. And yet there was something that told me I wouldn't want to spend too much time with him so I didn't stay in touch. A few months later, I saw him again in the same bar when we were both on our own so we started talking. He didn't remember me so I got a second chance to hear some of his stories. It did make me wonder whether you reach the point of being an FG when you start thinking that all white gaijin look the same.

Hoping he'd start on some fresh stories, I took him to another bar which had just been opened by one of the barmen who had been at the place we had first met. When we walked in, that barman's face fell. I carried on my conversation with the bloke but I soon worked out that his stories were on a loop and so I stopped buying him drinks and he went home. When he left, the barman said he was so happy he had gone because he was the worst customer he had ever had. The main problem seemed to be that this FG was a professional translator and constantly used Japanese that no-one really understood. I imagine it might have been like a Japanese guy quoting Shakespeare sonnets while ordering another round. He apparently gave everyone an insecurity complex when he spoke. It didn't help that he was a nasty drunk to boot who could easily have ended up stalking women like the fellow in this article. As I laughed along with the barman, I realised with some sadness that no-one would ever be offended about my Japanese being too good.


I also remember Steve Bilderman saying somewhere in these forums that if you really want to be rude in Japanese, you don't try and pretend to be a yakuza like so many people do, you are better off creating an inferiority complex in the other party. It dawned on me when I saw Steve's words that my old bar companion must have been doing exactly that.

[CrankyBastard]

He apparently gave everyone an insecurity complex when he spoke.

So in order to influence people in Japan, tone down your Japanese knowledge, and just act like the dumb gaijin they want you to be.
I've been doing that for years. I'm really good at it.
Though I made a blunder last week when I mentioned 秋霖（しゅうりん）
Fortunately, everyone thought I'd mispronounced something and ignored me.
Then we carried on looking for coins under the vending machines.

[Captain Japan]

Forget flowers, pervy professor says it with a rope and an eye mask
Mainichi

"I remember him for using a lot of gestures during his lectures. He used to tell us that using your eyes to look and your hands to touch were also forms of communication," an Atomi alumnus tells Shukan Bunshun. "People thought that was really funny and for a while students used to mess around by mimicking his movements."

A current student also speaks highly of Drake.

"His classes were ordinary, but he lets everybody pass, so he has a reputation as a good teacher. There were no rumors about him going around among students," the scholar says. "I was really surprised when I learned about this case."...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Forget flowers, pervy professor says it with a rope and an eye mask
Mainichi

...Drake has been in Japan since the '70s and taught at Atomi, a women's university, from 1978. He was the 131-year-old school's deputy president from 1992 to 1994....

Hmmm, I wonder why Drake was relieved of his post as the "school's deputy president"?

(In the States, often university adminstrators posts like Department Chairman are passed around like a hot potato. Nobody wants the job--extra work for no pay.)

[cstaylor]

you don't try and pretend to be a yakuza like so many people do

It's like watching a kid try on an italian mob accent... it just doesn't fit.