Peru asks Japan to justify Fujimori's Japanese nationality

Peru asks Japan to justify Fujimori's Japanese nationality

LIMA (AFP): Peru asked Japan what legal reasoning was used to grant ousted president Alberto Fujimori Japanese nationality, Foreign Minister Diego Garcia Sayan announced here.

Peru wants Japan to explain "the development or reasoning which lead" to the conclusion that the Peruvian-born Fujimori was Japanese, Garcia Sayan said late Wednesday.

Japanese ambassador Takahashi Kiya promised a prompt answer, Garcia Sayan said, adding that the request was made on Aug. 3rd.

Fujimori, 62, was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. He has been living in Japan, where his parents were born, since November, when he resigned the presidency via fax from Tokyo and took Japanese citizenship.