Did 'new Baba Vanga' predict Japan tsunami and record-shaking earthquake?

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A Japanese manga appears to have made another scarily accurate prediction after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake sparked tsunami warnings across the Pacific.
Nearly two million people have been evacuated with fears waves could reach almost 10 feet after 900 quakes rocked an island chain off Japan.
Beaches were deserted as people fled to higher ground, many taking refuge on building roofs, with waves already spotted on the northern island of Hokkaido.
But the tremors along with the sea surges were predicted by Ryo Tatsuki – Japan's answer to Baba Vanga – who wrote down 15 dreams she had in the 1990s, many of which would come true.
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She predicted a 'great disaster' on July 5, 2025, albeit making her prediction slightly early.
They were published in a 1999 manga called Watashi ga Mita Mira, known as The Future I Saw in English.
It became famous for its eerily accurate predictions, which included the coronavirus outbreak and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami which killed nearly 20,000 people in Japan.
'It's very scary to even fall asleep,' one local 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.' More Trending
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.'
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.
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