Between 1936 and 1940, she worked as a free-lance journalist, collaborating with Italian newspapers such as Gazzetta del Popolo and il Giornale d'Italia while writing an account of her travels to Korea, and a reportage about northern Japan and the Ainu people.

At the end of the conflict, she started teaching Italian at Tokyo University of Foreign Languages.

Through her activities, movie fans there came to know Italian Neorealism with works like Rome, open city, Bicycle Thieves, Paisan, and others.

[1] Moreover, it is Stramiglioli who recommended Kurosawa Akira's Rashomon (1951) to the Venice Film Festival, where the movie was awarded the Golden Lion prize.

In his autobiography, Kurosawa wrote:[2][3] I arrived home depressed, with barely enough strength to slide open the door to the entry.