Peru ? Peru said Thursday it was withdrawing its ambassador from Japan to protest Tokyo’s response to Peruvian attempts to extradite former President Alberto Fujimori, first from Tokyo and now from Chile.

The move came a day after Japanese diplomats visited Fujimori at the police training academy where he has been held since he was detained on an international arrest warrant after arriving in Santiago on Sunday.

The Peruvian Foreign Ministry, in a statement that was e-mailed to The Associated Press, said Lima was “terminating the functions of Peru’s Ambassador to Japan Luis Macchiavello.”

A ministry official told AP that the ambassador’s withdrawal represented a strong protest but stopped short of breaking diplomatic relations over Japan’s refusal to extradite Fujimori before his arrest in Chile. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the diplomatic action.

Fujimori, a son of Japanese immigrants, governed Peru from 1990-2000 before fleeing to Japan amid a corruption scandal. He faces nearly two dozen criminal charges, ranging from alleged corruption and abuse of power to sanctioning a paramilitary death squad.