This piece focuses on the background and career of Pio d’Emilia, an Italian journalist active in Japan, and examines the political and ideological context surrounding him.
The author emphasizes that d’Emilia was the Far East correspondent for the Italian left-wing daily Il manifesto and, in addition to his reporting and publications after the Great East Japan Earthquake, served as a special adviser during Kan Naoto’s tenure as prime minister.
The passage seeks to leave a strong impression on readers of how his position and actions may have been connected to Japan’s nuclear policy debate and the direction of the Kan administration.

2019-03-11
Il manifesto is an Italian left-wing daily newspaper.

Pio d’Emilia.
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Pio d’Emilia (1954– ) is an Italian journalist active in Japan.

Career and profile.
Born in Rome, of Italian nationality.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Rome in 1979, he served as an intern at a law office.
He studied at Keio University.
After that, he obtained the Italian national qualification for journalists.
While sending dispatches from Tokyo as the Far East correspondent for the daily Il manifesto, he also cooperated in reporting with various media including the current affairs weekly L’Espresso and the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), continuing for more than thirty years in journalism and becoming acquainted with many high-ranking figures in political and business circles.
Il manifesto is an Italian left-wing daily newspaper.

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At the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, he served for one year as a director and for four years as second vice president.
In 2010 he ran in the election for president of the Club and was defeated.
He has shown a distinctive presence by organizing press conferences and lectures at the Club inviting well-known figures from Japan and abroad who are active in various fields.
After the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, he covered the disaster-stricken areas for thirty days, including going as the only foreign journalist to the main gate of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
In June of the same year, he published in Italian the book Tsunami Nucleare (“A Tsunami Called Radioactivity”).
In October of the same year, the Japanese edition of the same book was published.
On June 21, 2011, he appeared on Asahi New Star’s News no Shinsō, in the segment “Italy Also Abandons Nuclear Power: The World’s Awareness,” and spoke about Italian public opinion regarding nuclear power and changes in global awareness of nuclear energy.
He had been a friend of Kan Naoto for twenty years and served as special adviser during Kan’s tenure as Prime Minister of Japan.
No wonder he was of the very lowest order of vulgarity in history.
In July 2011, at a dinner table, he urged Kan that Japan too should hold a national referendum, like Italy, on whether nuclear power should be maintained or abolished.