{"id":71972,"date":"2025-05-26T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/26\/japanese-manga-earthquake-prediction-travel-bookings-japan"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:46:17","slug":"holiday-bookings-to-japan-are-down-could-a-90s-manga-comics-earthquake-prediction-be-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71972","title":{"rendered":"Holiday bookings to Japan are down &#8211; could a 90s manga comic\u2019s earthquake prediction be to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, declared a major disaster would occur on 5 July 2025<\/p>\n<p>A grim prediction made in a manga first published a quarter of a century ago is being blamed for a dramatic fall in holiday bookings to Japan from several Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>Flight reservations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> from some of its key tourism markets have reportedly plummeted, with some linking the fall to The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel based on the \u201cprophetic\u201d dreams of its author, Ryo Tatsuki.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/26\/japanese-manga-earthquake-prediction-travel-bookings-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, declared a major disaster would occur on 5 July 2025A grim prediction made in a manga first published a quarter of a century ago is being blamed for a dramatic fall in holiday bookings to Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,88,3323,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-japan","category-manga","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71972\/revisions\/71973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}