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Japan's ‘Baba Vanga' warns of 2025 event that could lead to devastation — and now people are canceling their summer trips
She's Baba 'Manga.'
A Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic has foretold of a major disaster that'll befall Japan in 2025 — and people are so spooked they're canceling their summer vacations.
Manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has drawn comparisons to the blind Bulgarian mystic 'Baba Vanga' for her eerily accurate predictions of global events, which have included everything from the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the Daily Mail reported.
For her latest apocalyptic prophecy, outlined in a 2021 edition of her best-selling comic 'The Future I Saw,' she predicted a calamity occurring on July 5, 2025, the Guardian reported.
4 'The Future I Saw,' the eerily prescient manga by Ryo Tatsuki.
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The exact nature of the fiasco is unclear.
But it mirrored a prediction she made in the original 1999 manga in which she warned of a major 'great disaster' striking Japan in March 2011 — the same date as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and caused a triple-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
As such, superstitious parties took such stock in Tatsuki's latest premonition that they uploaded social media PSAs warning people to steer clear of the Land Of The Rising Sun.
4 Houses are swept by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.
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With the so-called doomsday date just around the corner, many travelers who had summer Japan trips booked are getting cold feet and either postponing or scrapping their vacays altogether.
Flight reservations for Japan from key markets such as South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong plunged dramatically following the prophecy.
According to a survey by Bloomberg Intelligence bookings from Hong Kong were down 50% year-on-year while trips between late June and early July had plummeted by as much as 83%.
4 Pandemic workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn, New York, on April 29, 2020.
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And summer trips weren't the only ones impacted by the prescient comic. An HK travel agency claimed that Japan travel reservations during the April-May spring break were down by half from last year.
Japanese officials have since implored people to ignore the warnings, which they claim are completely unfounded.
'It would be a major problem if the spread of unscientific rumors on social media had an effect on tourism,' said Yoshihiro Murai, governor of Miyagi prefecture — one of the hardest hit during the 2011 earthquake — said at a press conference, per the Daily Mail. 'There is no reason to worry because Japanese are not fleeing abroad … I hope people will ignore the rumors and visit.'
4 Blind Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, whose so-called powers of prognostication are legendary in psychic circles.
Nonetheless, even state officials have been concerned over quakes of late — and not just because of Tatsuki's manga, whose latest edition has sold more than 1 million copies.
In April, a government taskforce warned that a quake originating off Japan's Pacific coast would kill as many 298,000 people.
Fortunately, while Japan is one of the world's most quake-prone countries due to its location on the Pacific 'Ring Of Fire' experts pointed out that it's impossible to accurately forecast the time and location of an earthquake.
Unfortunately, the so-called Japan disaster isn't the only calamity that's on the horizon, according to 'The Future I Saw.' Tatsuki also foretold that COVID-19 — which killed over 7 million people and overflowed hospitals in 2020 — would return in 2030 and wreak even 'greater devastation,' the Daily Mail reported.
'An unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later,' she wrote.
This comes after a highly infectious COVID-19 strain that caused hospitalizations to spike in China has reared its head in the US with cases in New York City.
In a recent interview with Japanese media, Tatsuki warned people to take her predictions with a grain of salt.
'It's important not to be unnecessarily influenced … and to listen to the opinions of experts,' she said.
