Tourists are cancelling their trips abroad after a woman who has been referred to as Japan’s ‘Baba Vanga’ made a terrifying prediction for a disaster set to strike in just two months’ time. 

Baba Vanga, the renowned blind Bulgarian mystic, was known for her bleak but accurate predictions. Despite having passed away in 1996, she eerily predicted world events including the 9/11 attacks and the death of Princess Diana.

Now, Ryo Tatsuki, who has been heralded as Japan’s answer to the famed prophet, has warned that ‘a crack will open up under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines, sending ashore waves three times as tall as those from the Tohoku earthquake’, CNN reports.

In 1999, after consistently having what she described as visions of the future, Tatsuki released her book which was titled, ‘The Future I Saw’. In it, she detailed the eerie visions that she’d had, some of which have since come true.

In 2021, Tatsuki released an updated version of ‘The Future I Saw’ which included a prediction of a major disaster in mid-2025. 

Now, as the date draws closer, many travellers who had holidays booked to Japan for July are getting cold feet and postponing their trips or cancelling altogether.

According to CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday. 

This is expected to dip even further in the coming two months in the leadup to the premonition date.

Tourists are cancelling their trips abroad after a psychic dubbed ‘Japan’s Baba Vanga’ made a terrifying prediction

Tourists from China and Hong Kong, which are the country’s second- and fourth-largest sources of tourists, respectively, have been the most likely to cancel or postpone their Japan travel plans.

This was further exacerbated after China’s embassy in Tokyo stoked concerns by releasing an official warning to Chinese citizens in late April to take caution when travelling, studying or buying real estate in Japan.

But the panic has since spread to other markets including Thailand and Vietnam, where social media platforms have been flooded with Tatsuki’s prediction, warning travellers to reconsider their holidays to Japan.

Japanese officials have since attempted to quell the panic with a series of official statements to reassure travellers that these were simply ‘unscientific rumours’.

‘It would be a major problem if the spread of unscientific rumours on social media had an effect on tourism,’ Yoshihiro Murai, governor of Miyagi prefecture, said at a press conference on Wednesday.

‘There is no reason to worry because Japanese are not fleeing abroad … I hope people will ignore the rumours and visit.’

To date, Tatuski’s most accurate prediction was that a major disaster would occur in March 2011. 

Sure enough, in March 2011, Japan was hit by a devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in the northern Tohoku region which ended up claiming the lives of over 18,000 people.

Now, Ryo Tatsuki, who has been heralded as Japan’s answer to the famed prophet, has warned that ‘a crack will open up under the seabed between Japan and the Philippines’. Stock picture of Tokyo in Japan

It’s also thought that the author and artist predicted the death of Queen’s Freddie Mercury as well as the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

However, many remain sceptical of Tatsuki’s predictions. 

Critics point out that the Manga artist has always insisted that some of her dreams are purely symbolic, including a premonition that she would die in 2000 and that Mount Fuji would erupt.

Despite this, psychics from Japan and Hong Kong have since shared similar warnings of a catastrophic disaster taking place in July 2025, inadvertently adding to the panic.

In her predictions for the Year of the Snake, feng shui master Qi Xian Yu, who is also often referred to as Master Seven, said: ‘The coming year will see more natural disasters such as earthquakes and fires, and traffic and aviation accidents. We should also be careful of travelling to countries in the northeast direction, such as Japan and South Korea.’

Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, being situated along the Ring of Fire, an area that is notorious for its intense seismic and volcanic activity.

There have been mounting fears of the ‘big one’ ever since the Japanese government warned back in January that there was an 80 per cent chance of a severe earthquake hitting the country’s southern Nankai Trough within 30 years.

In 1999, after consistently having what she described as visions of the future, Tatsuki released her book which was titled, ‘The Future I Saw’ (cover pictured)

According to Tokyo’s metropolitan government, ‘Nankai Trough earthquakes are massive quakes that have repeatedly occurred at an interval of approximately every 100 to 150 years with their epicentral areas located along the plate boundary between Suruga Bay in the central prefecture of Shizuoka and the Hyuganada Sea off the southern main island of Kyushu’. 

The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long zone where the tectonic plates slip beneath each other, this means the most powerful typically occur in these zones.

The reason for the panic is because the tectonic plate under the Philippine Sea is slowly slipping beneath the continental plate that Japan sits upon. 

According to a 2013 report by the government’s Earthquake Research Committee, this plate moves a few centimeters every year.

Earthquakes at the Nankai Trough have been recorded every 100 to 200 years and the last quakes took place in 1944 and 1946, which both reportedly measured 8.1 in magnitude and caused 2,500 total deaths as well as thousands thousands of injuries and destroyed homes.

Oracle Ryo claimed she began having premonitions in the early 1980s after a number of her vivid dreams came true.

Her book has recently gained renewed interest after a number of her premonitions made in hindsight appeared to mirror real life events.

She claims to have seen images of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury dying suddenly in a dream on November 24, 1976.

Exactly 15 years to the day later, the singer died aged 45 from complications of having AIDS.

She is also thought to have predicted the death of Princess Diana.

A year after later, Tatsuki claimed she had a dream in which she saw a woman standing at the end of a corridor in a palace. Stood at the end, she saw a portrait of a blonde woman holding a baby, with the picture named ‘Diana’.

Five years to the day later, she claimed she had another dream about the Princess in which she saw her die in the car crash.

The prophet has previously said that her predictive dreams arrive in a period of time that can be divided by five.

Japan sits directly on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt of intense seismic activity. One of the most dangerous regions is the 600-mile (900km) section known as the Nankai Trough which produces megaquakes once every 100 to 200 years

Then in 1995, Tatsuki said that dreamed an old man led her to ‘cracked earth’, leading her to predict that the Japanese city of Kobe would be ‘cracked’ in either 15 days or 15 years.

And thus her prophecy came true as 15 days later, Kobe was struck by an insidious earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people. It is now considered the second deadliest earthquake of the 20th century.

Elsewhere in her book, she also predicted there would be a ‘great disaster’ that would occur in 2011.

It has also been alleged that Tatsuki accurately predicted the onset of the Covid pandemic.

Writing in her book, she predicted: ‘In 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later.’

If Tatsuki is correct, the world is yet to see the end of the virus, with another surge in cases poised for five years time.

Since a number of her predictions turned out to be true, Tatsuki has been compared to the Bulgarian prophetess, Baba Vanga.

Baba Vanga, who died aged 85 in 1996, was a blind psychic who passed away three decades ago.

She became a cult figure after supposedly predicting major world events such as 9/11, the Covid-19 pandemic and even Princess Diana’s death.