Manga prophet eerily predicts 'great disaster' before 900 earthquakes rock Japan
Just two days before the author-turned-prophet predicted a 'great disaster' more than 900 earthquakes rocked an island chain off Japan on Thursday.
Ryo Tatsuki, Japan's answer to Nostradamus, wrote down 15 dreams she had in the 1990s, many of which would come true.
They were published in a 1999 manga called Watashi ga Mita Mira, known as The Future I Saw in English.
A complete edition was published in 2021 and featured a 'new prophecy' that disaster will strike Japan on July 5, 2025.
Authorities said a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on Wednesday on the far-flung islands populated by 700 people.
'It's very scary to even fall asleep,' one resident told the regional broadcaster MBC. 'It feels like it's always shaking.'
Tatsuki, 70, wrote in her diary that she had dreamed of a 'crack opening up under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines, sending ashore waves three times as tall as those from the Tōhoku earthquake'.
The foreword from the publisher states: 'The disaster will occur in July 2025.'
In the afterword, Tatsuki added: 'If the day you have a dream is the day it becomes reality, then the next great disaster will be July 5, 2025.'
Yet in a new autobiography, The Testament of an Angel, Tatsuki distanced herself from the predictions.
'I was unhappy that it was published primarily based on the publisher's wishes,' she said, according to The Sankei Shimbun.
'I vaguely remember mentioning it, but it appears to have been hurriedly written during a rush of work.'
She also appears to have correctly prophesied about the deaths of Queen icon Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana.
The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of the Tokara island chain, around 745 miles away from Tokyo, according to the country's Meteorological Agency.
The Future I Saw is composed of 15 dreams that Tatsuki had in 1985 when her mother gifted her a notebook.
The cover shows pages from her 'dream diary'. 'Boom!' one reads, depicting the once 'beautiful' Mount Fuji erupting as storm clouds gather.
Another has an image of Princess Diana with the words, 'The dream I saw on August 31, 1995. Diana? What is it?', while one cryptically mentions a 'death anniversary' and the date June 12, 1995.
But the most alarming among them: 'Great disaster happens March 2011.'
Some readers saw the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011, among the strongest ever recorded in Japan, as the 'great disaster' Tatsuki dreamt of.
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