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Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
In 35 days, a ‘mega tsunami' will devastate Japan (according to a comic book ‘prophet')
A long-forgotten prophecy of impending apocalypse has resurfaced in Japan, putting the disaster-prone country I call home on edge once again. According to Ryo Tatsuki's manga comic book, The Future I Saw, the sea south of the island nation will bubble in July this year, intimating that a huge earthquake and tsunami are imminent. The book, which was originally published in 1999 and depicts cartoon visions of Tatsuki's dreams, has become a recent bestseller after going viral on social media. Hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold, driven by claims that the 70-year-old artist and author accurately predicted the 1995 Great Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in Japan, the Covid-19 pandemic and the sudden deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana. Many believe the original version of her comic – with a cover warning of a 'massive disaster in March 2011' – predicted the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 14 years ago, triggering the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. In an updated edition published in 2021, Tatsuki predicts the next disaster will strike on July 5, when a seabed crack between Japan and the Philippines will send waves three times taller than those seen in the 2011 tsunami crashing ashore. While gripping the nation, her ominous tale is also having an impact far beyond Japan itself, triggering mass cancellations of trips to the country. Chinese tourists, in particular, seem to be taking the prophecy seriously, with many cancelling their summer trips to Japan. The fear has also spread to countries like Thailand and Vietnam, where travel warnings about Japan are widely shared on social media, and to Hong Kong, where psychics have issued warnings of impending disaster. Absurd, superstitious nonsense? Maybe. But the powerful impact of Tatsuki's supposed prophecy has less to do with her past track record – which like most mystics consists of connecting vague utterances to real-world events – and more to do with a deep-seated anxiety about the geological realities of East Asia. Japan itself lies on the ring of fire – on top of four major tectonic plates – and the fear of natural disaster prowls the consciousness of every resident in the country. Anyone who lives here is likely to receive every year, through the door, a detailed 'disaster map' from the local government – marking areas at risk of tsunami, floods and landslides – and showing nearby evacuation centres. Everyone knows where these shelters are and regularly takes part in drills. It's common for people to keep a bag of emergency supplies by their front door, ready in case they suddenly become homeless refugees. So much so that it's easy to become blasé about the threat of natural disasters. But earlier this year, Japan's government earthquake research committee issued its latest best-guess prediction on the likelihood and impact of a massive quake in the Nankai Trough – located in the waters south of Japan along the Pacific coast. The scenario they envision is jaw-droppingly apocalyptic. The committee warns there is an '80 per cent' chance of a mega earthquake, magnitude 8 or higher, striking the area within the next 30 years. Such an event would generate waves up to 100ft tall, devastating the entire seaboard of central Japan – especially the south coast of Shikoku, the Kii Peninsula, and the Nagoya region – but also reaching Osaka, Kobe and other major urban centres. Around 300,000 people could be killed, 12 million displaced and the immediate damage estimated at nearly £1.5 trillion – roughly double Japan's national budget. Those figures are staggering. Not just in the projected number of deaths and the cost of the devastation, but also in the relative nearness of the timescale and the extremely high odds of the disaster occurring. In other words, what the experts are saying is: it's very probably going to happen. And relatively soon. And a 'go bag' by the door of your apartment is not going to save you or your family. More than the rediscovery of a 26-year-old comic book, it is this science-backed prophecy from the Japanese government that has prompted the deep unease and sense of panic. Predictions, of course, can be notoriously unreliable. Go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s and all the talk was of the 'Big One', the devastating earthquake that tended to strike Tokyo every 70 years or so (the last catastrophic quakes in Tokyo were in 1923 and 1855, killing over 100,000 and 7,000 people respectively). But in a country like Japan, attempting to outrun disaster – predicted or otherwise – can prove futile. In the early 1990s, I decided I would permanently avoid Tokyo going forward and moved to Kobe, where no one could ever remember an earthquake having taken place. That is until the morning of Jan 17 1995, when a huge earthquake killed around 6,000 people in the city and destroyed the apartment I was living in. So I continue to edgily live in Japan alongside the ever-present threat. I drill my children on what to do if a major quake occurs – flee north as fast as your legs will take you to get away from any accompanying tsunami. I tell them that if our house collapses, they are not to spend more than ten minutes looking for Daddy's body, but to evacuate immediately. Once uphill, don't look back, I say. For the 37 years in which I have been visiting and living in Japan, I have been constantly weighing up its risks. But only when I read the latest earthquake research committee prediction did it occur to me that I still wasn't fully processing the information. I suspect even the tourists cancelling their trips this summer – because they hope a clairvoyant can pin down 'risk' to a specific day – don't fully appreciate just how dire the warning is. Because if a catastrophic, apocalypse-style event of the like thought by experts to be highly probable in the next three decades actually occurs, then the country as we know it would, in the space of an hour or so, pretty much cease to exist. The almost perfectly safe, charming, jewel-like existence enjoyed in modern Japan would suddenly be turned into something comparable to the most hellish of war zones. Truly understanding that means treasuring every day in the country, foreboding comic books and all. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
15 hours ago
- Climate
- Telegraph
In 35 days, a ‘mega tsunami' will devastate Japan (according to a comic book ‘prophet')
A long-forgotten prophecy of impending apocalypse has resurfaced in Japan, putting the disaster-prone country I call home on edge once again. According to Ryo Tatsuki's manga comic book, The Future I Saw, the sea south of the island nation will bubble in July this year, intimating that a huge earthquake and tsunami are imminent. The book, which was originally published in 1999 and depicts cartoon visions of Tatsuki's dreams, has become a recent bestseller after going viral on social media. Hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold, driven by claims that the 70-year-old artist and author accurately predicted the 1995 Great Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in Japan, the Covid-19 pandemic and the sudden deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana. Many believe the original version of her comic – with a cover warning of a 'massive disaster in March 2011' – predicted the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 14 years ago, triggering the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. In an updated edition published in 2021, Tatsuki predicts the next disaster will strike on July 5, when a seabed crack between Japan and the Philippines will send waves three times taller than those seen in the 2011 tsunami crashing ashore. While gripping the nation, her ominous tale is also having an impact far beyond Japan itself, triggering mass cancellations of trips to the country. Chinese tourists, in particular, seem to be taking the prophecy seriously, with many cancelling their summer trips to Japan. The fear has also spread to countries like Thailand and Vietnam, where travel warnings about Japan are widely shared on social media, and to Hong Kong, where psychics have issued warnings of impending disaster. Absurd, superstitious nonsense? Maybe. But the powerful impact of Tatsuki's supposed prophecy has less to do with her past track record – which like most mystics consists of connecting vague utterances to real-world events – and more to do with a deep-seated anxiety about the geological realities of East Asia. Japan itself lies on the ring of fire – on top of four major tectonic plates – and the fear of natural disaster prowls the consciousness of every resident in the country. Anyone who lives here is likely to receive every year, through the door, a detailed 'disaster map' from the local government – marking areas at risk of tsunami, floods and landslides – and showing nearby evacuation centres. Everyone knows where these shelters are and regularly takes part in drills. It's common for people to keep a bag of emergency supplies by their front door, ready in case they suddenly become homeless refugees. So much so that it's easy to become blasé about the threat of natural disasters. But earlier this year, Japan's government earthquake research committee issued its latest best-guess prediction on the likelihood and impact of a massive quake in the Nankai Trough – located in the waters south of Japan along the Pacific coast. The scenario they envision is jaw-droppingly apocalyptic. The committee warns there is an '80 per cent' chance of a mega earthquake, magnitude 8 or higher, striking the area within the next 30 years. Such an event would generate waves up to 100ft tall, devastating the entire seaboard of central Japan – especially the south coast of Shikoku, the Kii Peninsula, and the Nagoya region – but also reaching Osaka, Kobe and other major urban centres. Around 300,000 people could be killed, 12 million displaced and the immediate damage estimated at nearly £1.5 trillion – roughly double Japan's national budget. Those figures are staggering. Not just in the projected number of deaths and the cost of the devastation, but also in the relative nearness of the timescale and the extremely high odds of the disaster occurring. In other words, what the experts are saying is: it's very probably going to happen. And relatively soon. And a 'go bag' by the door of your apartment is not going to save you or your family. More than the rediscovery of a 26-year-old comic book, it is this science-backed prophecy from the Japanese government that has prompted the deep unease and sense of panic. Predictions, of course, can be notoriously unreliable. Go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s and all the talk was of the 'Big One', the devastating earthquake that tended to strike Tokyo every 70 years or so (the last catastrophic quakes in Tokyo were in 1923 and 1855, killing over 100,000 and 7,000 people respectively). But in a country like Japan, attempting to outrun disaster – predicted or otherwise – can prove futile. In the early 1990s, I decided I would permanently avoid Tokyo going forward and moved to Kobe, where no one could ever remember an earthquake having taken place. That is until the morning of Jan 17 1995, when a huge earthquake killed around 6,000 people in the city and destroyed the apartment I was living in. So I continue to edgily live in Japan alongside the ever-present threat. I drill my children on what to do if a major quake occurs – flee north as fast as your legs will take you to get away from any accompanying tsunami. I tell them that if our house collapses, they are not to spend more than ten minutes looking for Daddy's body, but to evacuate immediately. Once uphill, don't look back, I say. For the 37 years in which I have been visiting and living in Japan, I have been constantly weighing up its risks. But only when I read the latest earthquake research committee prediction did it occur to me that I still wasn't fully processing the information. I suspect even the tourists cancelling their trips this summer – because they hope a clairvoyant can pin down 'risk' to a specific day – don't fully appreciate just how dire the warning is. Because if a catastrophic, apocalypse-style event of the like thought by experts to be highly probable in the next three decades actually occurs, then the country as we know it would, in the space of an hour or so, pretty much cease to exist. The almost perfectly safe, charming, jewel-like existence enjoyed in modern Japan would suddenly be turned into something comparable to the most hellish of war zones.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Chilling prediction that four of the world's most famous psychics say will happen in 2025
Four famous psychics have all warned about the same chilling event that they say will be taking place later this year. Bulgarian mystic and healer Baba Vanga, French 16th Century astrologer Nostradamus, Brazilian psychic Athos Salomé and London hypnotherapist Nicolas Aujula have all issued the same worrying prophecy for 2025. Baba Vanga, dubbed 'Nostradamus of the Balkans', has previously accurately predicted 9/11, the death of Princess Diana and the rise of China before her death in 1996. Alongside her predictions for shattering earthquakes due to the climate crises this year, which has already come true as Myanmar and Thailand faced devastating earthquakes last month, Baba has also forecast that Europe would be rocked by a devastating war. The prophet, who was born in 1911 as Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, had predicted the war as the start of 'humanity's downfall' that will 'devastate' the population. Meanwhile Nostradamus warned in his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events, that this year the UK is going to be drawn into a war. In the book, which first appeared in 1555, he said: 'When those from the lands of Europe, see England set up her throne behind. Her flanks, there will be cruel wars. 'The kingdom will be marked by wars so cruel, foes from within and without will arise. A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.' Another psychic who was named after the French astrologer but is still alive today, Athos Salomé, 38, from Brazil, dubbed the 'Living Nostradamus', also predicted a coming war. In December 2024, Salome, who correctly predicted past disasters including the coronavirus pandemic, Queen Elizabeth's death and the Microsoft global outage, chillingly predicted that World War III is imminent. With tensions rising around the world, he warned that we are teetering on the edge of WWIII, saying 'the worst is yet to come'. He notably warned of the issues around using technology and cyber war as the major forms of combat in the twenty first century. He said: 'This is not just a war of men, but of machines, and in this aspect what comes next?' Meanwhile Nicolas Aujula, a 38-year-old hypnotherapist based in London, agrees saying 2025 will be 'a year where there is a lack of compassion in the world.' 'We will see horrific acts of human evil and violence towards each other,' Aujula predicted, 'in the name of religion and nationalism.' Based on his psychic visions, he expects WWIII could be here by the middle of this year. The prospect of war reaching the UK feels more plausible now than ever before as Vladimir Putin's propagandists have declared that British blood 'must be spilled' in a haunting World War III threat, after they accused Britain of supplying the explosives that killed a top general in a Moscow car bomb last month. Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik died in Moscow near his home in the eastern suburb of Balashikha after a Volkswagen Gold filled with explosives was detonated in his presence. The dead military man was a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian army. While the Kremlin blamed Ukraine for the attack, Putin's propagandists have now turned their ire on Britain. So-called military expert Andrei Klintsevich told Russia 1 that Britain's security service handed explosives to the perpetrators 'by the ton.' Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov angrily added: 'We do realise that someone is creative a network of planted explosives and [transporting] these explosives. 'When we say that British security services are behind every terrorist attack, it means that the blood of the British who authorised the killings on Russian soil must be spilled. 'They must realise that they will pay personally. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' Solovyov threatened revenge on the alleged suppliers of the explosives and British intelligence. 'If these factories blow up [as well as] the headquarters of the intelligence agencies that gave the go-ahead for the terrorist attacks, they should not be surprised,' he said. It comes after Putin lackey Dmitry Medvedev warned that Sweden and Finland, two of NATO's latest members, are now potential targets of nuclear revenge. Dmitry Medvedev, who has styled himself as one of Russia's most outspoken anti-Western hawks, appeared to be referring to Sweden and Finland, the last two countries to join the Western military alliance. If conflict were to arise, nuclear weapons would not be off the table, the TASS state news agency reported. 'The non-aligned status gave them [Finland and Sweden] certain international perks, given their geopolitical position and many other factors,' Medvedev said. 'And now they are part of a bloc hostile to us which means they automatically became a target for our armed forces, including potential retaliatory strikes and even the nuclear component or preventive measures within the framework of a military doctrine.' Sweden was granted full membership of NATO last March, while Finland joined in April 2023, extending the alliance's border with Russia by over 1,300km. Last week, Moscow also warned Britain against deploying a 'coalition of the willing' in Ukraine, declaring it could lead to a nuclear World War Three. Putin hawk Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the powerful Russian security council and ex-defence minister, said Russia rejected Western boots on the ground in the war-torn country.
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Evangelical Trump-ally issues chilling prophecy about America's future
An evangelical MAGA Christian preacher has warned about a 'great event' that will strike the United States and 'render two groups of people obsolete.' Mario Murillo - who famously endorsed Donald Trump and claimed Kamala Harris' campaign was 'demonic' - made the bizarre and vague warning which took aim at atheists and churches that don't believe in the supernatural. The outspoken preacher made the chilling prediction at the Living Proof Crusade in Texas this week. 'A great event is coming to the United States,' he proclaimed. 'It'll be unlike anything America has ever seen. It will top all of the epochal things that have happened to our country. And when it comes, and it will, it is going to render two groups of people obsolete. They will no longer be in business. They will be out of business.' Murillo went on to insist the event would be 'so stupendous, so monumental that it is very difficult for me to find the words to adequately describe it.' The pastor often boasts of performing miracles on his supporters, healing various ailments and illnesses. He warned that the unnamed event would tear open the 'very thin veil' between the natural and supernatural. 'It will be generally accepted that the supernatural is real. The psychiatric community is going to admit that it's real.' He asked: 'Are you listening to what I'm saying? Medical doctors will admit that it's real.' Simultaneously, 'demonic' events will begin occurring alongside spiritual events, likely on university campuses and for the news media to see. In a warning to 'non-supernatural churches', Murillo said: 'You better bring back speaking in tongues. You better bring back prophecy. You better bring back casting out the devil. You better bring back laying hands on the sick.' Murillo then shifted to politics, warning 'The nations of the world are going to gang up on us. And do everything in their power to single out conservatives, Christians, and patriots. God revealed that the Church has three and a half years to wake up, unify, get on fire, and begin speaking out. Men and women of God who preach the truth are the heroes of this era right now.' Ahead of the election, he took part in a four-day sermon also attended by JD Vance about the future of America. 'I don't want a devil in the White House,' Murillo said, speaking of Harris. 'God is saying to the Church, Will you wake up and realize that I'm giving you the authority to stop this thing?'' he said. 'You have the authority.' He sensationally claimed the Secret Service 'wanted' Trump to be assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, and urged followers: 'We gotta stop the insanity going on in the United States.'
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Evangelical Trump-ally issues prophecy about 'great event' that will change America forever
An evangelical MAGA Christian preacher has warned about a 'great event' that will strike the United States and 'render two groups of people obsolete.' Mario Murillo - who famously endorsed Donald Trump and claimed Kamala Harris ' campaign was 'demonic' - made the bizarre and vague warning which took aim at atheists and churches that don't believe in the supernatural. The outspoken preacher made the chilling prediction at the Living Proof Crusade in Texas this week. 'A great event is coming to the United States,' he proclaimed. 'It'll be unlike anything America has ever seen. It will top all of the epochal things that have happened to our country. 'And when it comes, and it will, it is going to render two groups of people obsolete. They will no longer be in business. They will be out of business.' Murillo went on to insist the event would be 'so stupendous, so monumental that it is very difficult for me to find the words to adequately describe it.' The pastor often boasts of performing miracles on his supporters, healing various ailments and illnesses. He warned that the unnamed event would tear open the 'very thin veil' between the natural and supernatural. 'It will be generally accepted that the supernatural is real. The psychiatric community is going to admit that it's real.' He asked: 'Are you listening to what I'm saying? Medical doctors will admit that it's real.' Simultaneously, 'demonic' events will begin occurring alongside spiritual events, likely on university campuses and for the news media to see. In a warning to 'non-supernatural churches', Murillo said: 'You better bring back speaking in tongues. You better bring back prophecy. You better bring back casting out the devil. You better bring back laying hands on the sick.' Murillo then shifted to politics, warning ' The nations of the world are going to gang up on us. And do everything in their power to single out conservatives, Christians, and patriots. 'God revealed that the Church has three and a half years to wake up, unify, get on fire, and begin speaking out. Men and women of God who preach the truth are the heroes of this era right now.' Ahead of the election, he took part in a four-day sermon also attended by JD Vance about the future of America. 'I don't want a devil in the White House,' Murillo said, speaking of Harris. 'God is saying to the Church, ''Will you wake up and realize that I'm giving you the authority to stop this thing?'' he said. 'You have the authority.' He sensationally claimed the Secret Service 'wanted' Trump to be assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, and urged followers: 'We gotta stop the insanity going on in the United States.'
