Holiday bookings to Japan are down - could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?
Holiday bookings to Japan are down - could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?
Holiday bookings to Japan are down - could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?
Flight reservations to Japan from some of its key tourism markets have reportedly plummeted, with some linking the fall to The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel based on the “prophetic” dreams of its author, Ryo Tatsuki.
The cover of the original, published in 1999, refers to a “great disaster” occurring in March 2011 – the date Japan experienced a deadly earthquake and tsunami. In a new edition containing additional material that was published in 2021, Tatsuki said the next major disaster would occur on 5 July 2025. Her claim has fuelled sensationalist social media posts warning people to stay away from Japan.
Everyone likes to highlight the predictions that came true
No one ever likes to talk about the thousands of predictions that all failed to predict anything
No but you see, this one actually predicted a lot of stuff that actually happened!
…I mean, she said that she predicted them after they happened, but I’m sure she wouldn’t lie about that, would she?
Christians have been saying similar things for 2,000 years