Satomi Kataoka, Alberto Fujimori’s second wifespoke out for the first time in many years to mourn the death of the former dictator. According to a text message revealed by Punto Final, the Japanese businesswoman had planned to visit Peru, but health problems forced her to postpone her trip.
He also assured that during the years in which Fujimori was imprisoned in Perushe continued to provide him with both financial and emotional support.
“During his long years of exile and his imprisonment in Peru, I provided him with both emotional and material support. I believe he reflected deeply and summed up his own life. From the bottom of my heart, I offer my sincere condolences. Thank you very much. Goodbye to the president whom I loved like a father. When we are reborn, I hope to meet him again. I cannot hold back my tears,” the message reads.
He also remembered the culprit of the massacres in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta as a “kind” man. “He always had his heart with the people of Peru. This sudden news has not yet sunk in, and memories of my time with him come flooding back to me like a revolving flashlight sequence. He was a kind, sincere and honest man,” she wrote.
One of the last times that Alberto Fujimori referred to Satomi Kataoka
For his part, one of the last times that Alberto Fujimori referred to Kataoka during an interview to Latina when he was in Chile.
In 2007, the former dictator was having dinner with his son Kenji at a restaurant in Santiago. There he was stopped by a journalist from the aforementioned media outlet, who, among other things, asked him about his relationship with Satomi.
Below is a transcript of that conversation:
How is your wife? Why don’t we see her here at the table?
It’s in Japan. It’s very good, thank you very much.
Does he always come to see him?
He comes from time to time. He’s doing very well.
Are you accompanying him permanently?
Yes, yes by telephone.
Are you coming?
I can’t get ahead of you.
After that, Fujimori answered other questions related to his stay in Chile and his impressions regarding the upcoming ruling of the Court of that country.
At that time, the former dictator had an arrest warrant issued by Interpol and the Peruvian justice system accused him of 21 charges for alleged crimes of corruption and human rights violations.
Satomi Kataoka and her marriage to Alberto Fujimori
Although Fujimori was questioned about his second wife at the time, there has always been little information about her and their relationship.
Therefore, in search of more details, this media interviewed researcher José Alejandro Godoy, who explained that Satomi Kataoka She is a hotel entrepreneur with ties to far-right circles in Japan.
According to his studies, from 2003 and 2004, Fujimori and Kataoka were seen together, “but not with expressions of affection as would be seen in a Latin American context.” “We don’t know if there was a relationship of affection or admiration before anything else,” he says.
In 2006, Fujimori and Kataoka got married through a proxy marriage, meaning that the leader of Cambio 90 was not present at the time of the wedding. “Japanese law allowed people to marry through a notarized representative,” said Godoy.
