Goodbye to Pio D’Emilia, from today we are all more alone | RNAnews.eu

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Italian journalist Pio d’Emilia, was among the first foreign reporters allowed on the scene after the earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant.

Goodbye to Pio D’Emilia, from today we are all more alone


Pio D’Emilia has left us. Pio died in one of the two places he loved most: in Tokyo, the one he considered his home, the one he had chosen partly for journalistic flair and partly for cultural provocation years ago, when the Far East was a hardly visited by the European press, let alone by the Italian one.

He left us in an unusual way, in silence, he who loved words and used words to live with the same intensity with which he told his stories. Correspondent from Asia for almost 20 years, but also a great correspondent and reporter, curious and courageous. Every time there was an international crisis, an unstable area, a street protest, an earthquake, another natural catastrophe, even a long way from Tokyo, the phone call came: “If you want, I’m here, ready to go”. That degree of healthy recklessness that is the soul of a certain way of doing journalism was Pio’s most visible trait: it wasn’t just a profession, it was a way of being in the world, involved and engaging, passionate, all-encompassing. He didn’t have an easy character, it was not uncommon for some of us in the editorial team to have a heated exchange of views with him, because he was a type of battles big and small, with that passion towards work we all learned to understand that it was his passion towards life. [...]

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