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Fear spreads faster than facts in our digital age. Ryo Tatsuki, a former manga artist, has millions worried about a July 2025 tsunami based solely on her dreams. Travel bookings to Japan have dropped sharply, with some agencies reporting declines of up to 50 percent, already dealing a heavy blow to the country’s travel sector. The 70-year-old artist says the ocean south of Japan will “boil,” causing a huge tsunami that could hit many Asian countries. But before you change your vacation plans, remember there is no scientific evidence to back up her prediction. Sometimes, dreams are just dreams.
Who Is Ryo Tatsuki?
Ryo Tatsuki used to be a Japanese manga artist who started having strange dreams about disasters in the 1980s. She started to record these dreams in a personal diary and published them as a comic book called “The Future I Saw” in 1999. The book got little attention until 2011 when Japan suffered a massive earthquake and tsunami in March. People remembered her book mentioned that exact month, making her famous overnight. Now 70 years old, people call her Japan’s new version of Baba Vanga, after the legendary Bulgarian mystic who accurately predicted world events like 9/11 and Princess Diana’s death before dying in 1996.
The July 2025 Prediction Explained
The Japanese Baba Vanga describes seeing the Pacific Ocean south of Japan bubbling like boiling water in her latest dream. She believes this vision points to an underwater volcanic eruption that will trigger a mega-tsunami. According to her, the disaster would strike a diamond-shaped area covering Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. She claims the tsunami will be three times worse than the 2011 disaster that killed over 18,000 people in Japan. Tatsuki published this warning in a revised edition of her book in 2021. The prediction has since spread quickly on social media, fueling fear among potential travelers.
Travel Industry Feels the Impact
The economic fallout from Tatsuki’s prediction is already being felt, despite the lack of scientific evidence behind it. CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG travel agency, reported that “bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday” and are expected to dip further in the coming months. Travel agencies across Asia say customers are canceling or postponing trips scheduled for July 2025. Some tourists are adjusting their vacation plans to avoid the predicted disaster zone altogether. Airlines and hotels in the region are already reporting financial losses. Anxieties provoked by these prophecies have become “ingrained,” with people saying they “want to hold off their trip for now.”
The Reality Behind Her “Accurate” Predictions
A closer look reveals that misinformation and misunderstandings have built Tatsuki’s reputation more than actual predictions. An impersonator posted her widely circulated COVID-19 “prophecy” on Twitter in 2020, not Tatsuki herself. That account had lifted its content from Dean Koontz’s 1981 novel The Eyes of Darkness. Many of the events she’s credited with predicting had already occurred by the time she published her book in 1999. Critics say her visions are “too vague to be taken seriously.” Social media hype and retroactive interpretation have largely created her so-called “accurate track record.”
