The devastating disaster has been foreseen for this week

Tourists around the globe are said to be calling off their summer travel plans following a disaster prediction made by a manga artist.

Japanese illustrator Ryo Tatsuki has gained the nickname “the new Baba Vanga” after several of her forecasts have allegedly come true.

Baba Vanga, the late Bulgarian mystic, was known for predicting major global events such as the 9/11 attacks, Brexit, and the death of Princess Diana — all of which reportedly occurred after her death in 1996.

Although she has been dead for nearly 20 years now, her influence remains and there are plenty of future predictions that people are still concerned could actually happen.

But sceptics are clearly even more worried about the possible prediction of a disaster in Japan later this week, to the extent that trips to the Asian country have been cancelled over fears that it could come true.

Tourists cancel trips due to potential disaster
Tatsuki claimed she saw visions of the ocean ‘boiling’ south of Japan, and her famous Manga work – The Future I Saw – forecasts a devastating tsunami which has apparently been pencilled in for 5 July, 2025.

And this prediction of Tatsuki’s has seemingly caused travellers to rethink their plans, with NDTV reporting that there has been an 83 percent drop in flight bookings to Japan.

Bloomberg Intelligence also suggest that while average bookings from Hong Kong are down 50 percent year-on-year, bookings between late June and early July have plummeted by as much as 83 percent.

‘Japanese Baba Vanga’ has correctly predicted a series of events
Much like The Simpsons, Tatsuki has a scary amount of predictions under her belt and claims to have correctly called events such as Freddie Mercury’s death and a huge earthquake in Kobe back in 1995.

She also claims to have written: “In 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later.” So for any of you believers, it seems as if another pandemic might well be just five years away.

As her prediction for a tsunami in Japan in 2011 also came true, if Tatsuki is correct then the country could be subject to another significant natural disaster in the coming days.

What are the experts saying?
Yoshihiro Murai, the governor of Miyagi prefecture, stressed that tourism shouldn’t be affected by these predictions and rumours.

He said: “It would be a major problem if the spread of unscientific rumours on social media affected tourism. There is no reason to worry because the Japanese are not fleeing abroad… I hope people will ignore the rumours and visit.”

Japan is highly susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis because of its geographical location but everyone around the world will be hoping that we don’t see this particular prediction come true this week.