OSAKA -- With Japan facing mounting international pressure to extradite disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, the nation's Peruvian community is divided on the matter.
Having been president of Peru since 1990, Fujimori fled to Japan in November 2000 and was subsequently removed from office by Peru's Congress, which had declared him morally unfit to lead the nation.
In September 2001, Peru's Supreme Court charged him with the forced disappearance and murder of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University in 1992, as well as the murder of 15 people in Lima in 1991. The crimes were believed carried out by death squads on Fujimori's orders. The court also ordered him placed in detention.