Jaime Yoshiyama
Clemente Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka is a Japanese Peruvian and Fujimorist politician. He was the president of the Democratic Constitutional Congress from December 1992 to July 1995. He was also the Minister of the Presidency under Alberto Fujimori.Biography
Yoshiyama was born on July 23, 1944 in Huancayo, Junín. He is graduated in Industrial Engineering. He attended ESAN University, a prestigious Peruvian postgraduate School, and graduated as a Valedictorian in 1967 getting an MBA degree. He earned scholarships to attend Michigan State University graduating with a Master in Business Administration in 1969, and Harvard University with a Master in Public Administration 1976.
In July 1990 he was President of the Board of Directors of Electrolima and then President of the Committee on Privatizacion of Public Enterprises.
He was the founder of the Fujimorist alliance Change 90-New Majority. He became President of the Democratic Constitutional Congress in 1992. He was also Minister of Transport and Communications, Minister of Energy and Mines,and Minister of the Presidency during the first and second term of Alberto Fujimori, respectively.
Born in Huancayo, Yoshiyama ran for Mayor of Lima but lost to Alberto Andrade.
On June 21, 2006 judicial proceedings were initiated against Yoshiyama and twelve other former ministers of Alberto Fujimori for their involvement in the 1992 self-coup. On December 2007, Yoshiyama was found guilty on a charge of rebellion but was only given a four-year suspended sentence as he was considered a secondary accomplice.
