A MEGATSUNAMI TO INUNDATE JAPAN TODAY?

First of all, this is Friday, and if you are in the USA, it is a day off for our country's 249th birthday.  How much longer we'll have  a Democracy will be a challenge with Donald Trump as president.

• Greece is where Democracy was born.
• However, Democracy in Athens 2500 years ago was not quite what it is supposed to be.  First, only males who served in the militia could vote.  With all the ineligible men, women, children and foreigners, only around 15% could participate in the democracy of those days

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  As best as I can determine, modern Greece did not return to Democracy until 1974!  Joined the European Union in 1981, but elected a socialist government later that year.  The government continues through crises, sometimes with coalitions involving communists, other times just messed up and in scandal.  So is Greece a Democracy today.  I guess yes.

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  San Marino claims to have been a Republic since the year 300, but its current constitution only dates back to around 1600.  So San Marino can celebrate 425 years of Democracy.

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  Is the UK a Democracy?  They've long had a monarchy.
• There was the Magna Carta in 1215 which limited the monarch's power.
• There was a civil war from 1642 to 1660 between King Charles I and the Parliament, when the King was executed and a Republic called the Commonwealth of England was formed.

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  But history books seem to say that King George III (yes, he was the Mad One), had a key role when his American colonies claimed independence in 1776.
• While prime ministers began to take over the real leadership from the 1600s, it was not until the 1832 Great Reform Act that voting was truly established.  Yet, women and working-class men were excluded.
• Maybe a true Democracy did not form until 1928 when universal suffrage was established to incorporate women and most men.
• In any case, Google celebrates July 4th.

To the topic of today, this is a bit off the wall, but the internet is buzzing, and tourists have cancelled trips to Japan.  Why?  A 1999 manga called The Future I Saw by Ryo Tatsuki predicted a massive tsunami hitting Japan on 5July2025, and it is already that date in Japan.

• Read Wikipedia.
• Original manga on 1July1999, and reprinted on 1October2021.
• Amazon paperback for $13.99.
• Manga cover of this effort.

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  First gained attention when it was found that the cover of this manga had apparently predicted a disaster occurring in March 2011.  Remember the Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 11March2011?

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  About this manga edition, based on Tatsuki's dreams in 1985. 
• She suffered from writer's block in the 1990s, so she felt compelled to abandon writing.
• For her final production, she compiled her previous works and manga into a single volume.
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  Purportedly, of her 15 dreams, thirteen have already come to pass.
• On 24November1976, she dreamt about the sudden death of Freddie Mercury, who died 15 yeas later on 24November1991.

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  In 1992, she dreamt of a portrait of a woman named Dianna.  Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a traffic accident in 1997.  But Tatsuki said readers made the death connection, which wasn't her vision.

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  Kind of got out of hand, for an impersonator began making claims about her having predicted the Great Hanshin earthquake, and that Mount Fuji would erupt.

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  As a result, there is this current mass hysteria, as several airlines have canceled flights to Japan out of traveler concerns that the predictions would come true.

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  This disaster would come from a massive fissure opening in the Philippine Sea, causing a tsunami three times taller than that caused by the Tohoku earthquake.

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  Somehow, other claims surfaced that the tsunami would be caused by an asteroid, and perhaps ending the world.
• Last month I featured a couple of postings on megatsunamis.

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  China, Vietnam and Thailand were particularly influenced.  Bookings to Japan for late June to early July dropped by as much as 83%.
• Even a time has been mentioned, for Tatsuki's dream occurred around 4:18AM on 5July2021.

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  Ryo Tatsuki was born on 2December1954 in Yokohama.
• Debuted as a manga artist in 1975, but retired at the age of 45 in 1999.
• Is a self-claimed clairvoyant, and referred to as the New Baba Vanga.
• A manga, in case you did not know, is an adult comic book in Japan.

So why are normally sane people in the Orient taking this specific prophecy seriously?  And from a comic book, too.  Well, maybe because there have been similar prophets before.  Here is a top ten list of eerie predictions from history that shockingly came true.  Nostradamus is not included, but a glance at his projections indicates that the resultant notoriety comes mostly from exaggerated interpretations.  On the other hand, if a potential mega tsunami troubles you, why not just delay your visit to Japan.  So maybe that is the simple explanation.

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  Tatsuki these days gets linked to Baba Venga.  Who is she?
• Vangeliya Pandev Gushterova was a mystic and healer born in Bulgaria on 3October1911.  She lived for 84 years and passed away on 11August1996.
• She was born premature, had a terrible life and a whirlwind tossed her at the age 13, causing blindness.
• Got married in 1942 and became a soothsayer.

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  In the 70s, her reputation soared, and reportedly, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Leonid Brezhnev consulted her.
• In the 1990's a church was built for her in Rupite, Bulgaria.
• She died of breast cancer in 1996.
• Among her predictions include.
• Chernobyl disaster.
• Date of Stalin's death.
• Princess Diana's death.
• 2025 Myanmar earthquake.

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  A few predictions failed:
• Nuclear war between 2010 and 2016
• That the 44th president of the U.S. would be the last.  This was Barack Obama.  But maybe the 47th could become a dictator, ending democracy, so she was just a couple of presidents short.
• Watch this video.

My prediction?  Keep in mind that today in the USA is already tomorrow in Japan.  So even though it's the Fourth of July here, it is already July 5 in Japan.  So 4:18AM in Japan on July 5 was 9:18AM on July 4 in Hawaii.  To be sure, I googled, and found this very long video, which at first seemed scary, but noticed that this earthquake/tsunami was reporting on a 2024 event.  So at least 4:18AM Japan time on July 5 has passed.  No mega tsunami.  No warnings from the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Of course, it still is July 5 in Japan, and at this writing, there remain a little more 23 hours until the day ends.  But to reassure you, as an "expert" in mega tsunamis, this Tatsuki manga prediction is so unlikely to happen that you should carry on as usual even if you live on Kyushu facing the Pacific Ocean.  

There are no reports of a large asteroid ready to crash into Planet Earth and no danger of a major landslide anywhere in cliffs facing the Pacific Ocean.  The tectonic plates affecting the Philippine Sea show no particular pressure.  But even if there is a sudden and major subsea earthquake there, the far field wave amplitude should be only a few feet high, not the 100-1000 feet height of a mega-tsunami.

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