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New Delhi: Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, who is popularly known as “New Baba Vanga,” has predicted a catastrophic Tsunami hitting Japan in July 2025. This has sparked huge concern and travel cancellations. Ryo Tatsuki predicted a devastating disaster on July 5, 2025, with some interpreting it as a tsunami or earthquake triggered by an undersea split between Japan and the Philippines, the Guardian reported. She first gained attention when readers noted that her 1999 prediction of a “great disaster in March 2011” aligned almost exactly with the real-world Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011.
In 1999, her manga comic The Future I Saw was published. In it, she predicted a major natural disaster in Japan in March 2011. That prophecy turned out to be strikingly accurate, as a massive earthquake hit the Tohoku region in northern Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami in the sea.
Japan has reportedly witnessed 83 percent drop in flight bookings after Tatsuki’s predictions, with tourists from East Asia cancelling trips due to fears of the impending disaster. According to Bloomberg Intelligence, average bookings from Hong Kong are down 50% year-on-year, with bookings between late June and early July plummeting by as much as 83%.
A travel agency in Hong Kong reported a 50% drop in bookings to Japan during the April-May spring break, with many travellers cancelling existing summer bookings or postponing trips due to the terrifying prediction.
Japanese officials have urged the public to disregard Ryo Tatsuki’s predictions, stating they are entirely unfounded and lack any scientific basis. “It would be a major problem if the spread of unscientific rumours on social media affected tourism. There is no reason to worry because the Japanese are not fleeing abroad … I hope people will ignore the rumours and visit,” said Yoshihiro Murai, governor of Miyagi prefecture.
After her prediction about the 2011 earthquake came true, Ryo Tatsuki became extremely popular in Japan. It is said about her that she sees dreams and expresses them through her manga comics. Her fans claim that she had predicted the deaths of Princess Diana and singer Freddie Mercury. She had also foretold the COVID-19 pandemic.
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