Tourists cancel Japan trips after manga that predicted real earthquake warns of “catastrophe”

Japan’s largest tourist demographics are canceling their trips to the country in droves after a manga that predicted the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster warned of another catastrophe to come in 2025.

The manga in question is Ryo Tatsuki 1999’s publication ‘The Future I Saw.’ The story was inspired by a collection of Tatsuki’s dreams, which she would record in a notebook upon waking.

One of her dreams inspired her to write the phrase, ‘The great disaster will occur in March 2011’ — the same month and year that the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami happened, resulting in the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

That phrase graced the cover of ‘The Future I Saw’ 12 years before the catastrophe took place. Once this fact became widespread, the previously obscure manga became a highly-coveted piece of media, even selling at auction for over 100,000 yen.

Clairvoyant manga claims the sea south of Japan will “boil” in July 2025

In July 2021, Tatsuki was set to finish a ‘complete’ edition of her prophetic manga. The day before the deadline, she dreamt of the words, ‘The real disaster will come in July 2025.’

“The sea boils south of Japan in July 2025 and it will cause a mega tsunami,” she wrote in the manga. According to her, the tsunami will stem from a violent underwater eruption that will hit Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. The crack, she says, will appear under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines.

In her dream, she envisioned an earthquake ‘three times’ the size of the Tohoku quake, with a deadly tsunami resulting from an underwater eruption between Japan and the Philippines. The disaster will supposedly affect Japan, Taiwan and Indonesia.

Ryo Tatsuki

In Ryo Tatsuki’s ‘The Future I Saw,’ the protagonist grapples with a series of events they saw in a dream – some of which turned out to come true in real life.

Since her previous prediction turned out to be true, those who hoped to visit Japan during the summer are steering clear of the island country for the month of July.

As reported by CNN, travelers from Japan’s largest tourist sources are canceling their plans. CN Yuen, the managing director of a Hong Kong-based travel agency, says that trips to Japan plummeted in half during April, and are predicted to drop even more within the next two months.

These travelers are largely from China and Hong Kong, which make up Japan’s second and fourth-largest tourist demographics. However, these fears have also made their way to Vietnam and Thailand, where social media teems with videos urging potential travelers to stay away.

Yuen says that these suspicions have become “ingrained” in people and said they “want to hold off their trip[s] for now.”

Tatsuki has predicted a slew of other major global events that came true. For instance, she foresaw the 2020 pandemic and even the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, which killed 6,400 people.

Given her apparent clairvoyance, Tatsuki’s prediction for July 2025 holds a lot of weight for those who are superstitious — and even physics in China are predicting a similar disaster for Japan at that time.