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Japan’s ‘Baba Vanga’ July Disaster Prediction Drives 83% Drop in Travel Bookings

Japanese authorities have dismissed the forecasts as unscientific rumors despite a government taskforce warning that a Pacific-coast earthquake could kill nearly 300,000 people.

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Overview

  • Ryo Tatsuki, a Japanese manga artist and psychic known as “Japan’s Baba Vanga,” forecast a major calamity striking Japan on July 5, 2025, in her updated edition of The Future I Saw.
  • A Bloomberg Intelligence survey found that bookings from Hong Kong fell 50% year-on-year and reservations for late June to early July plummeted by up to 83%.
  • Travel agencies in South Korea, Taiwan and other key markets reported steep declines in both spring and summer trip reservations to Japan.
  • Governor Yoshihiro Murai and other officials have publicly urged people to ignore the doomsday predictions, labeling them unscientific rumors to protect the tourism sector.
  • Tatsuki’s reputation for accurate forecasts—including the Kobe and 2011 Tohoku earthquakes, Princess Diana’s death and the COVID-19 pandemic—has amplified public unease over her latest warning.