'Japan's Baba Vanga' foresees 'devastation' in chilling prediction for 2030
A psychic who has been dubbed 'Japan's Baba Vanga ' has made a chilling premonition that she says will come true in 2030, just half a decade from now. Ryo Tatsuki is a Japanese comic artist who has previously predicted the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana.
The mystic also foresaw natural disasters like the Kobe earthquake in 2011 and health emergencies such as the Covid-19 pandemic. She has been compared to the infamous Baba Vanga, the Bulgarian psychic.
Vanga's real name was Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, and she died at the age of 84 in 1996 having become famous for her clairvoyance. She claimed to have gained her powers during a storm, when she lost her eyesight at 12 years old.
And 85 per cent of her visions are said to have come true.
But Ms Tatsuki is now rising as a successor to the world-famous Baba Vanga, and she is predicting another deadly virus for 2030.
In her book, The Future as I See It, published in 1999, the Japanese psychic described an 'unknown virus' in 2020, leading many people to believe she correctly predicted Covid.
'An unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later,' she wrote. And worryingly she also believes a horrific virus will 'return in 2030' and cause even 'greater devastation'.
This concerningly coincides with Covid cases rising in India as a new strain of the virus has been identified, reported the Mirror.
Holiday bookings to Japan have dipped sharply over another of Ms Tatsuki's predictions. Fear of another big earthquake in Japan has been building for years with the country sitting on a seismic fault line, and it has seen its fair share of quakes in the past.
In fact, the country experiences around 1,500 official earthquakes each year, according to the EarthScope Consortium and JRailPass.com. These earthquakes occur daily, though many are too small to be felt.
The most recent major earthquake in Japan was on March 11, 2011 with a 9.0 magnitude force, and it was predicted by Ms Tatsuki. It caused a massive tsunami that claimed thousands of lives and led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Four years ago, Ms Tatsuki published an updated version of her book which predicted another earthquake, this one in July 2025, which seems to have affected tourism to the country.
CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, told CNN that bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday.
They are expected to dip further in the coming two months. Visitors from China and Hong Kong, which are Japan's second and fourth biggest source of tourists, have dropped significantly.
The impact of her latest prediction is also being felt in South Korea and Taiwan, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. It used ForwardKeys data to gauge the impact on airline bookings and found that average bookings to Japan from Hong Kong were down 50 per cent year-on-year.
Flights between late June and early July had plummeted by as much as 83 per cent.
'We expected around 80 per cent of the seats to be taken, but actual reservations came to only 40per cent,' Hiroki Ito, the general manager of the airline's Japan office, told the Asahi Shimbun following the sharp dip in travel over Easter.
"The quake speculations are definitely having a negative impact on Japan tourism and it will slow the boom temporarily,' said Eric Zhu, Bloomberg Intelligence's analyst for aviation and defense.
"Travelers are taking a risk-adverse approach given the plethora of other short-haul options in the region.'
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