Flight reservations to Japan from some of its key tourism markets have reportedly plummeted, with some linking the fall to The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel based on the “prophetic” dreams of its author, Ryo Tatsuki.

The cover of the original, published in 1999, refers to a “great disaster” occurring in March 2011 – the date Japan experienced a deadly earthquake and tsunami. In a new edition containing additional material that was published in 2021, Tatsuki said the next major disaster would occur on 5 July 2025. Her claim has fuelled sensationalist social media posts warning people to stay away from Japan.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Everyone likes to highlight the predictions that came true

    No one ever likes to talk about the thousands of predictions that all failed to predict anything

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      12 days ago

      No but you see, this one actually predicted a lot of stuff that actually happened!

      …I mean, she said that she predicted them after they happened, but I’m sure she wouldn’t lie about that, would she?