Disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's supporters hailed him as a hero as they took to Tokyo's streets to kick off his campaign in absentia for the July 29 House of Councilors poll.
Fujimori is running for a proportional representation seat on the Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party) ticket from Chile, where he remained under house arrest Thursday, awaiting a final decision by the Supreme Court on whether he should be extradited to Peru to face charges of corruption and human rights abuses, including sanctioning death squads.
Dewi Sukarno, widow of the late Indonesian President Sukarno and a well-known TV celebrity here, came out to show her support for her longtime friend, a Peruvian of Japanese descent who was granted Japanese nationality in 2000 when he arrived here after fleeing his country as his administration was felled by a corruption scandal.