A psychic dubbed Japan’s ‘Baba Vanga’ issued a terrifying prediction for 2030 which will bring back harrowing memories for many.

Ryo Tatsuki, a Japanese manga artist often compared to the renowned fortune teller Baba Vanga, has gained a notable reputation for her uncannily accurate predictions of significant global disasters.

Tatsuki has successfully foreseen the deaths of figures like Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana, as well as numerous major world occurrences, such as the 2011 Kobe earthquake and even the Covid-19 pandemic.

Currently, she is forecasting the emergence of another deadly virus, similar to the one that led to widespread lockdowns, overwhelmed healthcare systems, and resulted in more than 7 million deaths worldwide in 2020.

Writing in her book, titled The Future as I See It, published in 1999, the Japanese mystic foresaw the arrival of an ‘unknown virus’ in 2020, with many believing her to have accurately predicted the onset of Covid-19.

And according to Tatsuki, the world is yet to see the last of the devastating virus.

The Japanese artist predicted that the health disaster would make a ‘return in 2030’ and reap even ‘greater devastation’.

‘An unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later,’ she wrote. 

A psychic dubbed Japan ‘s ‘Baba Vanga’ has issued a terrifying prediction for 2030. Baba Vanga pictured 

A theory that may not be so far from the truth in light of the news that Covid cases are creeping back up in India. 

Major states including Kerala, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, among others have reported a ‘sharp increase’ in diagnoses of the virus, reported the Economic Times.

Responding to the new influx, health authorities across the country have issued guidelines to hospitals and warned people to remain vigilant. 

Officials have told the public not to panic but have emphasised the need for people to be cautious and act in line with government issued health guidelines. 

Last month, tourists were seen cancelling their trips in swathes after a prediction from Tatsuki foresaw disaster striking Japan.

Tatsuki, who also has a career as a manga artist, first gained notoriety after a number of predictions from her 1999 book titled, The Future I Saw, appeared to come to fruition.

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.

The Japanese artist predicted that the health disaster would make a ‘return in 2030’ and reap even ‘greater devastation’ (stock image)

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 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.

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

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)

While she was largely unknown at the time her first book was published, Tatsuki has since became a recognised force among psychics.

She 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.

Amongst her chilling predictions for the future, Tatsuki is said to have accurately foretold the sudden death of Freddie Mercury. 

She claims to have seen images of the Queen frontman 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 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. 

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.

She has often been compared to the Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, who despite passing away nearly three decades ago in 1996, has issued countless predictions for the fate of the world, foretelling events all the way up till 5079. 

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