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May
Travellers avoid trips to Japan amid talk of a big quake prophesied in manga novel
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Holiday bookings to Japan from key Asian markets have plunged ahead of the busy summer season. The cause: rumours of an impending earthquake prophesied in a manga novel. Social media and viral posts have unsettled travellers and renewed attention on manga artist Ryo Tatsuki’s prediction of a huge earthquake that would inundate Japan with tsunami waves. Tatsuki, whom some claim predicted Japan’s 2011 earthquake, gives July 2025 as the date of the impending event in a graphic novel that was first published back in 1999. The manga was republished in... Read More




