In the digital era, fear spreads faster than truth. Based only on her dreams, former manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has scared millions of people about a possible tsunami in July 2025. A lot of people are not planning trips to Japan anymore. Some companies say bookings are down by as much as 50%. This drop is already hurting the country’s travel industry a lot. The 70-year-old artist says that the water south of Japan will “boil,” which would generate a huge tsunami that could affect numerous Asian countries. But don’t change your vacation plans just yet; there is no scientific confirmation that her prediction is correct. There are times when dreams are just that: dreams.
Who is Ryo Tatsuki?
Ryo Tatsuki was a Japanese manga artist who started having strange nightmares about disasters in the 1980s. She made a comic book called “The Future I Saw” out of her dreams in 1999 and kept them in a personal notebook. Until March 2011, when a huge earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, not many people paid attention to the book. The month her book came out, she became renowned right away. People now call her Japan’s new Baba Vanga, after the well-known Bulgarian mystic who correctly predicted things like 9/11 and Princess Diana’s death before she died in 1996. She is 70 years old now.
What does the prediction for July 2025 mean?
In her most recent dream, the Japanese Baba Vanga witnessed the Pacific Ocean south of Japan bubbling like water that was boiling. She believes that this vision is about a volcano erupting under the sea and causing a large tsunami. She stated that the disaster will affect a diamond-shaped area that includes Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. She claims that this tsunami will be three times worse than the one that devastated Japan in 2011 and killed more than 18,000 people. In 2021, Tatsuki added this caution to a new edition of her book. Since then, the prediction has spread quickly on social media, making many people who might want to travel scared.
The travel business is harmed.
There isn’t any scientific support for Tatsuki’s prediction, but the economy is already experiencing the impacts. “Bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday,” said CN Yuen, the managing director of WWPKG travel agency. “They are likely to drop even more in the next few months.” Travel agencies all around Asia said that consumers are canceling or putting off trips they had booked for July 2025. Some tourists are changing their plans so they don’t have to go to the area that is prone to disasters. The hotels and airlines in the vicinity are already losing money. People are saying they “want to hold off their trip for now” because these projections have “stuck” with them.
Examining Ryo Tatsuki’s “Track Record”
People think that Tatsuki’s name comes from the fact that she dreamed about multiple big calamities. People who believe in her say she prophesied the deaths of Freddie Mercury in 1991, the Kobe earthquake in 1995, the tsunami in Japan in 2011, Princess Diana’s death in 1997, and even the COVID-19 pandemic. People that believe in her are more likely to accept her because of her so-called forecasts. A lot of them now take her tsunami prediction for 2025 very seriously. Her book became a very desirable collector’s item after 2011, and copies sold for a lot of money online. Millions of people around the world now perceive her as a trustworthy prophet because to social media.
The Real Story Behind Her “Correct” Predictions
If you look more closely, you might find that Tatsuki’s reputation has risen more from lies and misunderstandings than from true predictions. In 2020, someone pretending to be her tweeted her widely publicized COVID-19 “prophecy” on Twitter, not Tatsuki herself. That account had duplicated Dean Koontz’s 1981 book The Eyes of Darkness. Many of the things Tatsuki said would happen in her book came true by the time it was out in 1999. Some critics say her visions are “too vague to take seriously.” Most of what she calls her “accurate track record” comes from social media buzz and looking back at things.
The Princess Diana Prediction: What Happened?
Many people talk about Japanese Baba Vanga’s prediction that Princess Diana would die. People who support her say she wrote, “Diana?” She wrote the words “Diana? “Died?” was written in her diary on August 31, 1992, exactly five years before Diana died in a car crash on August 31, 1997. But if you look closely at her original manga comic from 1999, you may notice the word “DIANNA” faintly printed in the background of one panel. There is no confirmation that this diary note ever existed, and a lot of people assumed this vague reference was a prophecy after Diana died. This example indicates that people might label anything a “prediction” later if they don’t know what it implies.
Tatsuki Ryo What Scientists Say About Making Predictions
Not dream journals, but instruments and data from the ground are what scientists and geologists use to predict disasters. Japan’s Meteorological Agency keeps an eye on seismic activity all the time and hasn’t sent out any warnings for July 2025. Japan’s Cabinet Office remarked, “Modern technology has not yet been able to accurately predict an earthquake.” You can only make meaningful predictions if you observe signals that something is about to happen, such odd seismic swarms, changes in the ground, or changes in volcanic activity under the sea. Right now, none of these things are happening. The Pacific Ring of Fire is known for earthquakes, and Japan is in it. But to make accurate predictions, you need to look at data across several years and use better monitoring tools. Travelers and investors might both feel easier knowing that there are no public warnings from trustworthy authorities.
What You Should Know About Predictions Based on dreams:
The fear that emerged from the Japanese Baba Vanga’s prophecy for July 2025 shows how erroneous information can affect the economy. There isn’t much evidence that she is a real prophet, but myths and lies about her on social media have made her more popular. People who supposed to be her made up a lot of false predictions, copied language from novels, or talked about things that had already happened. Tatsuki encouraged people not to let her dreams “sway” them too much and to “act appropriately based on expert opinions.” People should talk to professional scientists before making important decisions based on prophesies. Trustworthy government officials and earthquake monitoring groups believe that Japan is still safe to visit. Fear may spread faster than facts, but in the end, we should base our decisions on facts.
