A Japanese manga published in the 1990s appears to have made another disturbing prediction.
Just two days before the author-turned-prophet declared a “great catastrophe,” more than 900 earthquakes shook a chain of islands off the coast of Japan on Thursday.
Ryo Tatsuki, the Japanese equivalent of Nostradamus, wrote down 15 dreams she had in the 1990s, many of which came true.
These dreams were published in a 1999 manga titled Watashi ga Mita Mira, known in English as “The Future I Saw”.
The full edition was released in 2021 and included a “new prophecy” that a catastrophe would occur in Japan on July 5, 2025.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the remote islands, home to 700 people, on Wednesday, authorities said.
The movement has been going on for weeks now, and locals are finding it difficult to stay on their feet.
There were no tsunami warnings for the outlying islands, and local residents have no access to medical care.
“It's really scary to even fall asleep,” one local told regional broadcaster MBC. “It feels like it's shaking all the time.”
Tatsuki, 70, wrote in her diary that she dreamed that “a crack formed under the water surface between Japan and the Philippines, causing waves three times higher than those of the Tohoku earthquake to crash onto the shore.”
The publisher's preface mentions: “The catastrophe will occur in July 2025.”
In the afterword, Tatsuki added, “If the day you have a dream becomes the day it comes true, then the next great disaster will occur on July 5, 2025.”
However, in her new autobiography, The Testament of an Angel, Tatsuki distanced herself from the predictions.
“I was unhappy that the book was published primarily at the publisher's request,” she said, according to The Sankei Shimbun.
“I vaguely remember mentioning it, but it seems to have been written in a hurry, in the rush of work.”
She also appears to have accurately predicted the deaths of Queen icon Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana.
The epicenter of the earthquake was off the coast of the Tokara archipelago, about 745 miles from Tokyo, according to the country's Meteorological Agency.
“The Future I Saw” consists of 15 dreams that Tatsuki had in 1985, when her mother gave her a notebook.
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