"No Japanese will govern Peru," said an inscription defiantly scrawled on a Peruvian flag brandished by demonstrators outside the house of Mario Vargas Llosa, the presidential candidate.

It governed Peru between 1956 and 1962.

Mr. Fujimori governed Peru from 1990 to 2000.

"You have to fire Montesinos, demonstrate you govern Peru, and show that this government is clean."

It governed Peru until 1930.

After a decade in which he governed Peru as an authoritarian ruler, Alberto K. Fujimori now seems weary but defiant as he adjusts to a new life as a private citizen here.

Governing Peru has never been an easy task given a history of terrorism, corruption, tensions between military and civilian authorities, and a population divided by geography and racial division.

Although the military governed Peru from 1968 to 1980, most analysts interviewed here this week said they did not believe that the coup makers intended to hold power long.

Mr. Fujimori governed Peru from 1990 to 2000, was twice freely elected and retained high popularity through much of his two terms, even after suspending Congress and the Supreme Court in 1992.

Today, Mr. Fujimori, who is to be inaugurated on July 28, his birthday, outlined a centrist blueprint for governing Peru through the first half of the 1990's.