July Disaster Prediction Overshadows Demand for Travel to Japan

   Tokyo, June 25 (Jiji Press)--A prediction in a comic book that a major disaster will occur in Japan in July is dampening demand for travel to the country, especially from Hong Kong.
   The estimated number of visitors to Japan from Hong Kong in May fell 11.2 pct from a year before to 193,100, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
   "There appears to be a potential fear of earthquakes," an expert said.
   The prediction appears in the complete version of "Watashi ga Mita Mirai" (The Future I Saw), a comic book by Ryo Tatsuki that features her dreams. It says a tsunami far exceeding the scale predicted after a possible huge earthquake in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast of Japan will occur on July 5, 2025.
   Its previous edition, published in 1999, had a description about a "major disaster in March 2011" on its front cover, creating buzz as having predicted the giant earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku northeastern region on March 11, 2011.

(2025/06/25-11:49)

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