Walking Away from the Killing Fields: How a Hopeless Boy Became a Professor

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This book tells a story about Nophea Sasaki's determination to overcome his childhood's fear and pursue and accomplish his dreams. This book will teach the reader with real life experiences and examples how to bring their dream to realization

Nophea SasakiFeb
07/02/2008

(PRLog.Org) – Feb 07, 2008 – Dr. Nophea Sasaki is announcing the launching of his book Walking Away From the Killing Field – How a Hopeless Boy Became a University Professor in Japan. It is a motivational book that will teach the reader step by step how to become a university professor, and more important than that, how to pursue his/her life's dreams.

Nophea and his family were forced to migrate when the Khmer Rouge regime took power in 1975. He was submitted to witness his father's execution in 1977 and his sister's death as a result of starvation later in 1977. Left with nothing but hope, courage and the determination to change the outcome of his life, Nophea managed to get himself educated becoming a respectable professor at the University of Hyogo in Japan.

Throughout the book, Nophea talks about hardship and success, about the determination to achieve dreams no matter how high one might aim, about becoming a respected university professor in spite of all the obstacles, but most important about how to never give up. By sharing his personal experience, Nophea is sharing with the world the power of determination and it teaches how to achieve success. How one should be determined to better themselves and be willing to fight for realization of their dreams. Setting his life's experiences as an example he guides the reader through his/her journey on becoming a university professor by offering him/her with real life situations and experiences that one can relate to and easily put into practice.

About the Author

Nophea Sasaki (Kim Phat ) was born in 1973 in Kampot, a southwest town in Cambodia. As the Khmer Rouge regime took power in 1975, Nophea and his family were forced to migrate in the jungles. His father was executed in 1977 because of the regime's desire to abolish former ways of educated thinking and establish new leadership rules. Later, his sister died of starvation in 1977. He spent a year in an asylum center with his brother and two remaining sisters, and other children whose parents were executed or deceased.

Despite of the unfortunate circumstances of his childhood, Nophea graduated with his Bachelor's degree in 1994, his Master's degree in 1999 and his Ph.D. in 2002. He spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in Germany. In 2004 he returned to Japan where he became an Associate Professor at the University of Hyogo. In 2006 he was awarded Japanese citizenship for all his accomplishments and the positive impact on the Japanese society.