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A popular manga predicted catastrophe — and Japanese tourism took a hit
SEOUL — A Japanese comic book's premonition of an impending natural disaster in Japan has gotten some tourists so wigged out that they are avoiding the country this summer, prompting government officials to try to dispel rampant rumors about the prophecy.
The recent decline in sales of flights from some key Asian tourist markets to Japan have been attributed to a manga by Ryo Tatsuki: 'The Future I Saw.'
