Born in 1954 and living in the Yokohama region, Ryô Tatsuki is a Japanese mangaka (or mangaka) author who became famous in 2011. Indeed, in one of her works published in 1999, Watashi ga mita mirai (My visions of the futurepublished in France at Black Box Éditions), an anthology where the author compiled her premonitory dreams, she drew a page indicating “a great disaster in March 2011”. Like the earthquake of March 11, 2011 of Tôhoku which killed nearly 20,000 people.
COVID-19, death of Freddie Mercury, Kobe earthquake…
Since then, the manga of Ryô Tatsuki, published since the 1970s, have been dissected such as the texts of Nostradamus. Because the author drew several disturbing dreams throughout her career, whether it was the death of Freddie Mercury, the Kobe earthquake in Japan in 1995, or that a terrible illness was going to hit the world in 2020.
Success help (and also to counter several attempts to usurpage his name), Ryô Tatsuki published in 2021 a new version of his manga. In the preface, compiled by the Unseen Japan site, she refutes having some donation of premonition: “I think everyone has these kinds of dreams, but that the majority forget them because they do not put them in writing like me. »This did not prevent mangaka from adding new predictions, especially on a tsunami striking Japan in July 2025…
From July 5 to 30
There stops the comparison with reality: Ryô Tatsuki had predicted the event for July 5 at the sea level of the Philippines, while tsunami alerts took place Wednesday July 30 after an earthquake off the Russian Kamchatka peninsula.
Estimating that the peaceful region will be affected by earthquakes or tsunamis is almost trivial: there are many tectonic plates, and Japan is found at the crossroads of four of them. The question is when these natural phenomena will take place, and that, nobody is able to say it.
False prediction, real fall in tourism
But Ryô Tatsuki’s “prediction” had real consequences on Japan: a drop in tourism attendance, especially from Southeast Asia. According to the Bloomberg economic media, flight reservations for the summer of 2025 from Taiwan, South Korea or Hong Kong fell 50 % compared to 2024, with a drop reaching 83 % for the period from the end of June to early July – that of the famous prophecy. And the flights were very empty.
More than the veracity of his dreams, Ryô Tatsuki above all considered that his work opened the debate on the need to prepare for natural disasters. As she recently declared in an interview with Japanese daily Mainichi (and reported by The world): “The interpretation of dreams is free from free will, but it is important to act in an appropriate manner without being influenced and listening to the advice of the experts. »If herself says it …
