US EditionHongkongers Scrap Japan Trips over Comic Book’s Earthquake Prophecy
- In early July, Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines suspended flights to Tokushima amid declining passenger demand linked to manga-inspired earthquake fears.
- Viral fears originate from a 2021 manga reprint by Ryo Tatsuki predicting a catastrophe on July 5, 2025, fueling travel anxiety across East Asia.
- Bloomberg Intelligence reports Hong Kong bookings dropped 50% year-on-year and 83% from late June to early July, amid 1,031 tremors since June 21 and a magnitude 5.5 quake near the Tokara Islands on July 3.
- Despite declining Hong Kong arrivals and halved bookings, Japanese tourism persists, with officials urging calm and emphasizing earthquake preparedness over unfounded predictions.
- Japan's Meteorological Agency warns of an 80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 quake along the Nankai Trough, urging ongoing preparedness despite scientific uncertainty.
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‘Nothing happened in Japan’ trends on Chinese social media; Japan refutes rumor of devastating earthquake predicted for Saturday
A rumor claiming that a devastating earthquake would strike Japan on Saturday (July 5) has recently gone viral on social media, drawing widespread attention. As a result, many foreign tourists have canceled their trips to Japan, impacting the country's tourism industry. The Japanese government and experts have stepped forward to refute the rumor, stressing that it lacks any scientific basis, CCTV News reported on Saturday.
Ryo Tatsuki, the artist behind the manga titled "The Future I Saw," has tried to put the rumors to rest, stressing that she is "not a prophet."
In Japan in recent weeks, the number of Asian tourists has collapsed due to... a successful manga, supposedly prophetic. Entitled My visions of the future, the book predicts a major earthquake and then a gigantic tsunami that will devastate the archipelago by July 5. Scientists may say and repeat that such disasters cannot be predicted in advance, thousands of travellers from neighbouring countries have considered it more prudent to postpone the…
A Manga Is Causing Earthquake Panic in Japan
Earthquakes can’t be predicted. Scientists agree that precise predictions of a time, place, and magnitude is not possible with current technologies. Yet a years-old Japanese manga that claims a “megaquake”—those above a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale—will strike on July 5 has generated panic and deterred some inbound travelers for the past several months. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The 2021 reprint of The Future I Saw by Ryo Tatsu…
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