A popular manga predicted catastrophe — and Japanese tourism took a hit
A Japanese comic book's premonition of an impending natural disaster in Japan has got some tourists so wigged out that they are avoiding the country this summer, prompting Government officials to try to dispel rampant rumours about the prophecy.
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