Alberto Fujimori, Peru's disgraced former president, made his first public appearance in 14 months Thursday, delivering a lecture at Takushoku University in Tokyo.

Fujimori, who fled to Tokyo in November 2000 amid a corruption scandal involving close aide Vladimiro Montesinos, recalled how he succeeded in hunting down terrorist groups during his 10 years as president. He did not comment on the number of charges he faces back home.

Among the allegations brought against him are dereliction of duty as president and sanctioning the massacre of citizens suspected of cooperating with leftist guerrilla groups.

Outside the university entrance, about 20 demonstrators, mostly Peruvians, chanted calls for Fujimori to go back home and face trial, while student groups protested against the university for inviting Fujimori to speak there.

"Fujimori has no pride at all," said Miguel Kikuchi, a 30-year-old Peruvian of Japanese descent who has been living in Japan for 11 years. "He is a Peruvian, and he must go back home and face trial."

Kikuchi also said many Peruvians in Japan feel irritated with the Japanese government for protecting Fujimori. "Why do they keep Fujimori here? He is a criminal."

University officials defended their invitation to the scandal-tainted ex-president.

"What is going on in Peru is nothing that a private university in Japan should be involved in," professor Toshio Watanabe told reporters after Fujimori's lecture. "Japan has freedom of speech. We believe we should give someone like Mr. Fujimori an opportunity to speak."

Watanabe added that the university has a long history of development studies in Asia and Latin America, and that it had wanted to invite Fujimori since he became president.

During the 90-minute lecture, conducted in Spanish and translated into Japanese, Fujimori described how terrorist groups in Peru brutally killed poor citizens, illustrating his talk with video footage.

"But in the 1990s, things changed," he told the capacity crowd, mostly students. "In small villages far from the city, people saw the president suddenly come to them in a helicopter and offer a hand of help for wives who lost their husbands to terrorists . . . and build schools that were destroyed" by the terrorists.

Fujimori said his government built 3,000 new schools, mainly with Japanese aid, and developed basic infrastructure in rural areas. He denied allegations that he pocketed some of the money for those works. "I have done nothing dirty regarding money transactions," he maintained.

He also said his government succeeded in intercepting terrorists' radio and telephone messages, which effectively led to the arrests of most terrorist leaders by the late 1990s.

Peru has demanded that Japan hand over Fujimori. Tokyo, however, has maintained it cannot extradite the former president because he is a Japanese citizen and that there is no extradition treaty between the two nations.

Fujimori, who was dismissed by Peru's Congress as "morally unfit" to govern after his resignation was rejected, indicated that he would stay in Japan. "The crisis for the president who fought terrorism is not over," he said.

Fujimori did not touch upon the 1996 hostage crisis at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, and there was no question and answer session following his lecture.