Overview

• Ryo Tatsuki, dubbed Japan’s “Baba Vanga,” predicts a catastrophic event on July 5, 2025, in her manga The Future I Saw.
• Her record of forecasting the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified attention to her latest warning.
• Bloomberg Intelligence data show reservations for late June to early July down 83%, with spring bookings off by about 50% in markets such as Hong Kong.
• Social media alerts and advisory notices in China and other Asian countries have driven widespread travel cancellations across East Asia.
• Authorities, including Miyagi governor Yoshihiro Murai, have dismissed the prophecy as unscientific, urged trust in expert risk assessments and cited a task force warning that a Pacific-coast quake could kill up to 298,000 people.