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The manga artist who has prophesied a superquake in Japan on July 5
Manga artist Ryo Tatsuki wrote in her 2021 work 'The Future I Saw' about a crack forming beneath the sea between Japan and the Philippines, which she claimed would trigger a tsunami three times more powerful than the one in 2011. The prediction has gone viral, especially after a small island in southern Japan recently recorded over 1,000 tremors. Some airlines have also cancelled flights from Hong Kong, where passenger numbers have seen the steepest drop read more A massive disaster could hit Japan on July 5, according to manga artist Ryo Tatsuki's prediction. The forecast comes from her 2021 manga, 'The Future I Saw', which was first released in 1999. In the manga, she describes a crack forming beneath the sea between Japan and the Philippines, which would lead to a tsunami said to be three times stronger than the one that struck in 2011. ALSO READ | Japan warns of megaquake that could kill 300,000 along Nankai Trough: What is it? STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The prediction, which has now gone viral, has led some airlines to cancel flights from Hong Kong, where passenger numbers have dropped the most. Notably, a small island in southern Japan has recently recorded over 1,000 jolts. So, what exactly is this prediction? And what's going on in the island that has already witnessed more than one thousand quakes? Let's take a look: What is the prediction by 'Japanese Baba Vanga'? Manga fans believe that many of Ryo Tatsuki's predictions, which are based on her dreams and featured in her comic book, often come true. Her track record has led to her being called the 'Japanese Baba Vanga', a reference to the late Bulgarian mystic known for foreseeing major global events, including the 9/11 attacks, ISIS's rise, and Barack Obama's election. The latest prediction comes from Tatsuki's 2021 manga. She is also known for forecasting the 1995 Kobe earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Whether it comes to pass or not, it's having an effect on air travel in Japan. The Future That I Saw 👁️ Japanese Comic Predicts Massive Disaster for July 2025 (July 5, 2025 at 4:18 a.m.) Retired comic artist Ryo Tatsuki claims that she has been having prophetic dreams for… — UFO CHRONICLES PODCAST🎙️𝕏 (@UFOchronpodcast) July 3, 2025 In her manga, she writes that a deep crack would appear beneath the sea between Japan and the Philippines, leading to massive waves, three times taller than those that hit Japan in the 2011 disaster. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD What has added fuel to the panic is that a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's Tokara Islands on Thursday (July 3), two days ahead of the date mentioned in the comic. The prediction has since gone viral, especially across East Asia, with thousands of videos being shared online in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and South Korea. On X, several users have linked the prediction to growing fears of a possible Nankai Trough megaquake. In the manga, she describes a crack forming beneath the sea between Japan and the Philippines. Reuters/File Photo Over 1,000 quakes jolt Japan's small island Japanese officials recently advised 89 people living on a small island in the country's south to leave their homes after a strong quake hit the area on Thursday. This was the latest in a series of over 1,000 tremors recorded in the region. An official told AFP that residents were asked to move to a school playground on Akuseki Island. Akuseki belongs to the Tokara island group, located south of the Kyushu region. Since June 21, the area has experienced 1,031 earthquakes. Of the 12 islands in the Tokara chain, seven are inhabited, with about 700 people living across them. ALSO READ | When a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD What Japanese gov and Tatsuki are saying Ryo Tatsuki, the manga artist behind the much-discussed prediction, has asked people not to take her forecast too seriously. In a recent interview, she said people should stay calm and rely on experts instead of her visions. Meanwhile, Ayataka Ebita, director of the earthquake and tsunami observation division at Japan's Meteorological Agency, also responded to the rumours. Japan sits on four major tectonic plates, making it one of the most seismically active places on Earth. Reuters/File Photo He told AFP, 'We are aware that such tales are circulating, but that is a hoax.' He added, 'With today's science and technology, it is not possible to predict earthquakes.' The Japan Meteorological Agency also issued a statement online saying: 'Any such predictions should be considered unreliable.' How predictions have led to dip in tourism The rumour has had an impact on tourism, especially among East Asian visitors. Bloomberg Intelligence reported that bookings from Hong Kong have fallen by 50 per cent compared to 2024, and for the period from late June to early July, the drop is as steep as 83 per cent. While Japan hit a record in April with 3.9 million tourists, the number of visitors in May dropped. Arrivals from Hong Kong fell by 11 per cent year-on-year, according to the most recent data. Steve Huen from Hong Kong-based EGL Tours blamed the fall in numbers on viral social media posts. These posts refer to a manga that mentions a dream about a massive earthquake and tsunami hitting Japan and nearby countries in July 2025. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Japan's megaquake warning that could kill 300,000 Back in April this year, a report by the Japanese government warned of the serious consequences if a major earthquake were to strike the Nankai Trough, an area off Japan's Pacific coast. The report estimated losses of around $1.81 trillion and suggested up to 300,000 people could lose their lives if the long-feared quake were to occur. A damaged road after an earthquake, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Reuters/File Photo Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. Experts believe there is an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake hitting the Nankai Trough. The Nankai Trough is an undersea trench about 800 kilometres long, stretching from Hyuganada near Kyushu to Suruga Bay in central Japan. 🧵 Japan's next major Disaster, a Thread As we remember the 2011 megaquake, we must stay vigilant and prepared for the next major disaster that could strike Japan. Nankai megathrust earthquakes are massive quakes that occur along the Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea… — 由仁アリン Arin Yuni (@Arin_Yumi) March 11, 2025 For years, Japan has warned of a 70 to 80 per cent chance of a massive earthquake striking this region within the next three decades. The country has seen devastating disasters before, including the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, followed by a nuclear crisis. That 9.0-magnitude quake led to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Japan sits on four major tectonic plates, making it one of the most seismically active places on Earth. With inputs from agencies
International Business Times
2 days ago
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Will Great Disaster Strike Japan on July 15? Manga Artist Predicts Mega Earthquake
Japan is now a topic of discussion worldwide due to a grim prediction by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki. The Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic predicted a great disaster for the East Asian country on July 15. In her best-selling comic, The Future I Saw, she predicted that a mega earthquake would strike Japan in July. The complete version of her book Watashi ga Mita Mirai, Kanzenban (The Future That I Saw) contains her new prophecy about a major natural disaster. The cult work, published in 2021, mentioned a dream she had while travelling in India in July 2021. In her dream, the manga artist saw "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". According to her, she saw the seas boil as if she were looking at the earth as if it were on Google Earth. She had the dream again at 4.18 am on July 5, 2021. "The disaster will occur in July 2025. If the day you have a dream is the day it becomes reality, then the next great disaster will be July 5, 2025," Tatsuki wrote. The Impact The grim prediction by Ryo Tatsuki led to a dramatic fall in the bookings to Japan this summer. The prophecy gained massive traction online, resulting in a 50 percent dip in bookings to the country. Flight reservations to this East Asian country from Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong declined due to this prediction. "The earthquake prophecy has caused a big change to our customers' preferences," Frankie Chow, head of Hong Kong travel agency CLS Holiday, told AFP. Will Great Disaster Strike Japan on July 15? Here is the truth about the grim prediction by Ryo Tatsuki about a great disaster in Japan on July 15. The manga artist, 70, said in her new autobiography, The Testament of an Angel, that the prediction about a disaster next week would have been a misprint from the publisher's side. She stressed that July 15 was the day she had this dream in 2021. The editorial staff could have misinterpreted her words. "I was unhappy that it was published primarily based on the publisher's wishes. I vaguely remember mentioning it, but it appears to have been hurriedly written during a rush of work. The day I had the dream does not equal the day something happens," she told the Japanese newspaper The Sankei Shimbun. The Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic shared her happiness watching people show interest in The Future I Know. Over 1.06 million copies of the book have been sold, with a renewed interest in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia. "It is evidence of growing awareness of disaster prevention, and we view this as a positive thing. We would like to help in the event of a disaster, and hope that this interest will lead to safety measures and preparations. I have to be especially careful when I go out, and I also try to stock up on supplies in case of a disaster," she shared. Meanwhile, seismologists said that it is impossible to predict the exact date, time, and location of an earthquake. An earthquake can occur at any time. It is important to make preparations. "With current scientific knowledge, it is difficult to predict an earthquake by specifying its date, time, and location, so please be aware that earthquakes can occur at any time and make preparations on an ongoing basis," the Cabinet Office Disaster Prevention Division in Japan mentioned on X/Twitter. What is The Future I Saw? The cult work contains 15 dreams that the manga artist had in 1985. She wrote them in a notebook that her mother gifted her. The book gained traction after 13 of her dreams came true. Some of her dreams were about the deaths of Diana and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, a pandemic in 2020 – the coronavirus, and the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011.
Tokyo Weekender
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Tokyo Weekender
‘Prophetic Manga' Predicts a Great Cataclysm Will Hit Japan in July 2025
Retired comic artist Ryo Tatsuki claims that she has been having prophetic dreams for close to 50 years now. In the early 1980s, she started recording her visions and their dates in a proper dream journal, and in 1999, she released a manga, Watashi ga Mita Mirai (The Future That I Saw) based on some of the entries in it. Legend goes that one day before the deadline, the author received a message in her dream that she then added to the cover. It read: 'March 2011, Great Disaster.' Some people interpret it today as a prediction of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, known as 3.11. Now, though, Tatsuki is saying that Japan will experience an even bigger disaster in July 2025. List of Contents: A Claimed Career of Clairvoyance From 3.11 to 7.2025 Airlines Among the First Victims of the 'July Cataclysm' Prediction Fault Lines Related Posts A Claimed Career of Clairvoyance According to a 2021 complete edition release of Watashi ga Mita Mirai, among the many things Tatsuki predicted was the passing of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury 15 years before it happened, and the death of Princess Diana five years before the tragic events in Paris in 1997. Tatsuki seems to dream about death a lot. In one case, she was in some kind of cave with a girl she didn't know, only to later discover it was a WW2-era air-raid shelter at an unidentified park in Yokohama. Later, she heard on the news that a chopped-up body wearing the same clothes she saw in the dream was found in the man-made 'cave.' Other times, death was even more veiled, like in the dream where she visited her family home in the countryside and came to a crossroad where instead of grapes, she saw a field of loquats (symbols of misfortune, according to the author). Tatsuki interprets this as premonitions about her uncle's later death. Even when she isn't foreseeing death, Tatsuki rarely foretells anything good, including the time she reportedly predicted her friend being dumped with the phrase: 'I don't dislike you, but I don't love you.' The tsunami-wreaked devastation in Tohoku after the 2011 earthquake. From 3.11 to 7.2025 After the tragic events of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that resulted in over 20,000 deaths, Watashi ga Mita Mirai was rediscovered and quickly became known as the 'phantom prophetic manga.' It was out of print at the time so copies of it started being sold for over ¥100,000 at auction sites. A re-release was all but guaranteed, and it was eventually slated for 2021. But just like in 1999, shortly before the deadline,Tatsuki received another premonition, this one telling her that the 'real disaster' will befall Japan in July 2025. In the complete edition, the author clarifies that a giant tsunami dream she's been having since 1981 was not connected to the March 2011 Great Disaster premonition as many people thought throughout the years. Tatsuki explains that, in her dreams, it was summer since she was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, while 3.11 happened in winter. Plus, the destructive wave she saw was three times larger than the one that hit Tohoku, where the tsunami reached over 40 meters in height. The 2021 dream predicting a July 2025 cataclysm offered further details on the origins of the tsunami, which will apparently be the result of a massive explosion like a volcano or a bomb going off between Japan and the Philippines. The seabed will be pushed up and create new land masses while giant waves will consume a third to a quarter of Japan facing the Pacific Ocean. Airlines Among the First Victims of the 'July Cataclysm' Watashi ga Mita Mirai became a hit in China, where fans are taking the 7.2025 prediction so seriously, they've canceled a bunch of flights to Japan around that time. Greater Bay Airlines actually had to cut summer flights from Hong Kong to Japan by three to four a week amid plummeting demand. Adding to the fear is a prominent Hong Kong feng shui master who foretold increased earthquake risks for Japan from June to August of 2025. All in all, airline bookings from Hong Kong fell by 30% this year , especially to Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture (the city nearest to the 3.11 quake) and Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, which would be one of the places hit first by a tsunami coming from the south. But it won't be. Prediction Fault Lines 'Predicting' the death of Freddie Mercury could have been eerie if Tatsuki also put a date on it. Dreaming of Mercury's death 15 years before it happened means less than nothing especially for a person who, even before he first started exhibiting symptoms of HIV and AIDS, embodied the hard-partying, devil-may-care nature of rock and roll. It wasn't weird for people to assume that, out of all the Queen members, Freddie would be the first to go someday. At least in her dream, Tatsuki actually saw a news bulletin saying 'Freddie Mercury has died.' Her dream of Princess Diana involved simply seeing her picture on the news under the name 'Dianna.' As for the park killing, the story in the manga apparently changed a few details 'out of respect for the victim,' so it is difficult to verify it, especially given the disturbingly high number of murders in Japan where the victim was dismembered. Finally, getting 'death' from loquats feels like something that doesn't deserve commentary, but let's try it anyway. Throughout the complete edition of Watashi ga Mita Mirai, Tatsuki is constantly hedging her predictions by saying that a lot of her dreams are symbolic, like the one telling her she will die in 2000, or the one about the metaphorical eruption of Mount Fuji. But she apparently can't tell which visions are literal and which aren't, so how are we to know that the 'July Cataclysm' won't be the latter? She also uses words like 'maybe,' 'perhaps,' and 'I don't know, though' a lot. For someone who also claims to have been the daughter of the Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba in a previous life (Tatsuki is into spiritualism), she really should be more confident in her predictive powers. Or not, since the other dates on the cover of her manga ranging from 1991 to 1999 don't seem to correspond to any major disasters. People have tried to link them to all sorts of events, including the COVID pandemic of all things, but it's all too vague and desperate to be taken seriously. So, is the July 2025 prediction made up? Nobody knows. Plus, why would anyone do that? The complete edition release of Watashi ga Mita Mirai sold over 560,000 copies . For legal reasons, the previous two sentences are completely unrelated. Related Posts Manga Manners: How Sailor Moon and Eren Yaeger Are Teaching Japanese Etiquette in JR Stations From Nana to Paradise Kiss: Ai Yazawa's Iconic Manga Are Coming to Uniqlo The Lesbian Romance That Inspired a String of Volcano Suicides
