Ryo Tatsuki: "The Future I See," a manga with predictions of major events including the great earthquake of 2011 and 2025.
On July 1, 1999, a manga was published in Japan that went unnoticed until March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake devastated Japan. Readers of The Future I See , which was already 12 years old at the time, realized that the 2011 disaster was strikingly similar to what had been predicted in the book. Since then, it was revealed that Ryo Tatsuki, the author of this manga, had experienced 15 prophetic dreams, 13 of which came true. Who is Ryo Tatsuki? Ryo Tatsuki was born in Kanagawa, Japan, on December 2, 1954, and currently resides in Yokohama. During his childhood, he was involved in drawing and singing, activities common to most children, so there was nothing particularly unusual about him. However, when he was nine years old, he had a dream in which he saw a very kind and friendly "elderly man" with white hair. Although the man shared many things with him, he did not clearly explain the meaning of his visions at that time. In 1975, as Ryo Tatsuki was starting his c...