A Japanese manga printed within the Nineties appears to have made one other scarily accurate prediction.
Just two days before the author-turned-prophet predicted a ‘great disaster’ greater than 900 earthquakes rocked an island chain off Japan on Thursday.
Ryo Tatsuki, Japan’s answer to Nostradamus, wrote down 15 dreams she had within the Nineties, lots of which might come true.
They were published in a 1999 manga called Watashi ga Mita Mira, often called The Future I Saw in English.
A whole edition was published in 2021 and featured a ‘latest prophecy’ that disaster will strike Japan on July 5, 2025.
Authorities said a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on Wednesday on the far-flung islands populated by 700 people.
‘It’s very scary to even go to sleep,’ one resident told the regional broadcaster MBC. ‘It appears like it’s all the time shaking.’
Tatsuki, 70, wrote in her diary that she had dreamed of a ‘crack opening up under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines, sending ashore waves 3 times as tall as those from the Tōhoku earthquake’.
The foreword from the publisher states: ‘The disaster will occur in July 2025.’
Within the afterword, Tatsuki added: ‘If the day you could have a dream is the day it becomes reality, then the following great disaster will likely be July 5, 2025.’
Yet in a brand new autobiography, The Testament of an Angel, Tatsuki distanced herself from the predictions.
‘I used to be unhappy that it was published based on the publisher’s wishes,’ she said, based on The Sankei Shimbun.
‘I vaguely remember mentioning it, however it appears to have been hurriedly written during a rush of labor.’
She also appears to have accurately prophesied concerning the deaths of Queen icon Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana.
The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of the Tokara island chain, around 745 miles away from Tokyo, based on the country’s Meteorological Agency.
The Future I Saw consists of 15 dreams that Tatsuki had in 1985 when her mother gifted her a notebook.
The quilt shows pages from her ‘dream diary’. ‘Boom!’ one reads, depicting the once ‘beautiful’ Mount Fuji erupting as storm clouds gather.
One other has a picture of Princess Diana with the words, ‘The dream I saw on August 31, 1995. Diana? What’s it?’, while one cryptically mentions a ‘death anniversary’ and the date June 12, 1995.
But probably the most alarming amongst them: ‘Great disaster happens March 2011.’
Some readers saw the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011, among the many strongest ever recorded in Japan, because the ‘great disaster’ Tatsuki dreamt of.
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