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Days before, Fujimori had resigned the presidency of Peru by fax. Now the 62-year-old was settling into the homeland of his parents with no plans to leave--but possibly facing corruption charges in Peru. He appears to qualify for citizenship because his parents registered his birth at the Japanese consulate in Lima, and that datum was transferred, somehow, into the family registry in their home village in Japan. Immigration authorities were vague about all this, while diplomats prayed the new Peruvian government would not demand that Japan send Fujimori back to face charges. They don't want...
Would he ever return to Peru on his own? "Maybe sometime," Fujimori said. "Later." For now, he said, he has a "new approach" for fighting corruption and staying involved in Peruvian affairs...
...presidency was a difficult affair. He arrived in office in 1990 as a popular reformer, a man who planned to fix Peru's damaged economy and rebuild a society fractured by drug dealings and decades of low-level civil war. Doing all that, however, required that Fujimori use a firm hand. As the years went by, the hand became harsher, and Fujimori's government became more susceptible to charges of corruption. He won a third term earlier this year, but the vote was clouded with suspicion. By September, when he said he would step down the following July, Peruvians were...
...says he plans to write his memoirs. Much of his documentation will come from videotapes he kept during his rule. "They would fill up this hotel room," he said. "Everything that happened for 10 years, I have." He did say he was proud of what he had accomplished in Peru--and part of the reason he was leaving now was out of concern that his presence could somehow hurt the struggling country. "I don't want what I achieved, for example, the economic stability, to be lost." If that stability remains, it may be a tribute to his rule...
Next stop, Peru. Its President, ALBERTO FUJIMORI, resigned by sending a Dear Juan letter from Tokyo to Lima. He said it had "nothing to do with" a corruption scandal, but the next day an outraged Peruvian Congress fired him, citing "moral incapacity"--a first for that country. Two vice presidents also submitted resignations. The president of the Congress is now interim President...