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A chilling prophecy has been made by a psychic, often referred to as Japan's Baba Vanga, which is set to come to fruition in just five years' time, in 2030. Ryo Tatsuki, a comic artist, has previously accurately predicted events such as the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana, natural disasters like the 2011 Kobe earthquake, and health crises including the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her uncanny abilities have drawn comparisons to Baba Vanga, the renowned Bulgarian seer, whose real name was Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova. Baba Vanga, who passed away aged 84 in 1996, claimed her clairvoyant abilities were triggered by a severe storm that caused her to lose her sight at the age of 12.
It's believed that an impressive 85% of her visions proved accurate. Now, Ms Tatsuki is forecasting another lethal virus for 2030, akin to the one that swept across the world five years ago.
In her 1999 book, The Future as I See It, she spoke of an 'unknown virus' emerging in 2020, leading many to believe she had foreseen the Covid pandemic. "An unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later," she wrote.
Alarmingly, she also predicts a terrifying virus will "return in 2030" causing even "greater devastation". This comes as Covid cases surge in India, with locals being urged to remain alert, reports the Mirror.
Meanwhile, Japan has seen a significant drop in holiday bookings due to another prediction by Ms Tatsuki. The country, which sits on a seismic fault line and experiences around 1,500 noticeable earthquakes each year according to the EarthScope Consortium and JRailPass.com, is no stranger to tremors.
The fear of another major earthquake has been growing for years. The most recent significant quake occurred on March 11, 2011, with a magnitude of 9.0.
Predicted by Ms Tatsuki, it triggered a devastating tsunami that claimed thousands of lives and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Given this history, anxiety about a similar event seems justified.
Four years ago, Ms Tatsuki published an updated version of her book predicting another earthquake in July 2025, which now appears to be impacting tourism. CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a Hong Kong-based travel agency, told CNN that bookings to Japan halved during the Easter holiday.
This trend is expected to continue over the next two months. Visitor numbers from China and Hong Kong, Japan's second and fourth largest sources of tourists, have significantly decreased.
In Thailand and Vietnam, online posts warning of earthquake danger are gaining traction.
The latest forecast's repercussions are being felt across South Korea and Taiwan, as reported by Bloomberg Intelligence. Utilising ForwardKeys data to assess the impact on flight bookings, it was revealed that average bookings from Hong Kong had dropped by 50% year-on-year.
Bookings for flights between late June and early July saw a staggering decline of up to 83%.
"We expected around 80% of the seats to be taken, but actual reservations came to only 40%," Hiroki Ito, the general manager of the airline's Japan office, disclosed to the Asahi Shimbun in light of the significant travel downturn over Easter.
"The quake speculations are definitely having a negative impact on Japan tourism and it will slow the boom temporarily," commented Eric Zhu, an analyst for aviation and defense at Bloomberg Intelligence. "Travelers are taking a risk-adverse approach given the plethora of other short-haul options in the region."
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