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Topics: Baba Vanga, Japan, News, Travel, World News, Coronavirus
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Baba Vanga, Japan, News, Travel, World News, Coronavirus
A woman that's been dubbed as the 'new Baba Vanga' has bad news for people in Japan and anyone who had plans to travel there soon.
Ryo Tatsuki, a Japanese manga artist, is famous not only for her drawings but her accurate predictions about world events.
She's believed to have predicted the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, as well as a biopic being made about the late singer's life after his passing.
Tatsuki also accurately forecasted a devasting earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 that claimed the lives of thousands of people. In her famous book The Future I Saw, the artist said that there would be 'catastrophe somewhere in Eastern Japan in March 2011'.
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She also spoke of an 'unknown virus' — now thought to be in reference to coronavirus — that would come in 2020 and would peak in April of that year before returning again a decade later.
But there's one particular prediction that's set to happen soon that's got people talking again of late...
In a newer edition of her original 1996 book The Future I Saw which hit shelves in 2021, Tatsuki spoke of a 'real catastrophe' that would take place on July 5.
CNN reported that warned that she warned 'a crack will open up under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines, sending ashore waves three times as tall as those from the Tohoku earthquake'.
It's thought that a under volcanic eruption might also be on the horizon after Tatsuki mentioned 'boiling' sea water that could trigger a 'mega tsunami'.
In light of Tatsuki's previously accurate predictions, people who had plans to travel to Japan around the time of the upcoming 'catastrophe' are erring on the side of caution and reportedly canceling their trips.
According to CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday.
It's believed many of those who had planned to visit Japan and have since canceled were from mainland China and Hong Kong, but travellers from Thailand and Vietnam are seemingly reluctant to visit Japan in the near future now as well as a result of Tatsuki's forecast being distributed on social media platforms.
Backing up the claims about reduced travel to Japan, airline company Greater Bay Airlines is said to have reduced its flights to three flights per week instead of four in the wake of the declining demand, The Mainichi reports. The reduced flights started on May 12 and will continue through to October.
The airline said that the speculation about the major distaster has contributed to the decline in tourism to Japan, in addition to Donald Trump's tariff policies.