Will The Prediction Of Japan's July 5 Earthquake Come True?

On the morning of July 5, 2025, at 5 o'clock, the Japanese archipelago will be destroyed in a strong earthquake and tsunami. This doomsday prophecy, which caused countless tourists to cancel their flights, has been shattered by the prophet himself. It was the Japanese manga artist Ryo Ryuki, known for his "divine prophecy," who sparked this storm of panic. In 1999, she accurately predicted the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in "The Future I See". When the cover of the 2021 replica printed "July 2025 Disaster", the whole of Japan held its breath.

At the beginning of this year, rumors of the "July 5th earthquake" spread like wildfire. Despite multiple denials from the Japan Meteorological Agency, travel orders to Japan have plummeted, and panic is spreading across the internet.

1, The nationwide panic triggered by comic prophecy

Japanese manga artist Ryo Ryushu claimed in his 2021 book "The Future I See" that Japan will experience a devastating earthquake and tsunami on July 5, 2025, which could even cause one-third of its territory to sink. This prediction has attracted widespread attention due to its "coincidence" with the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake - the illustration of the "March 2011 Disaster" in its 1999 old work was highly consistent with the actual 9.0-magnitude earthquake, causing the book to be sold at a sky high price of 500000 yen on auction platforms. As the prophecy date approaches, Japanese social networks are polarized: some cancel travel plans, some rush to buy disaster relief supplies, and even conspiracy theories of "government covering up the truth". This confuses people as to why a cartoonist's dream recording can trigger a crisis of trust at the national level?

2, Collective debunking by scientific institutions

Faced with panic, authoritative institutions such as the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Institute of Land and Geography have repeatedly spoken out. Meteorological Agency Chief Ryuichi Nomura made it clear that the so-called prediction of the July 5th earthquake is purely a rumor, and global seismic activity is currently in a calm period with no abnormal signs. "Kumamoto University marine volcanology expert Hisashi Yokose further refuted" Tokara's Law, "emphasizing that the recent 911 earthquakes in Kagoshima Prefecture (with a maximum magnitude of 5.1) are normal energy releases from tectonic plates and have nothing to do with the prediction. More importantly, the scientific consensus points out that earthquake warnings can be issued within seconds after the earthquake, but predicting the specific date and location remains a world-class challenge. We believe that it is precisely because technology cannot completely solve the unknown that rumors take advantage of it.

3： The Legendary Prophecy of たつき りょう

01 Storm of Prophecy: From Comic Books to Panic
The author's prophecy is full of legends. The description of the "March 2011 Great Disaster" in the first edition of the comic in 1999 coincided with the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Japan.
When the waistband of the 2021 reprinted version was glaringly marked with "July 2025", and the specific date of "July 5" appeared in the book, the sensitive Japanese people instantly tensed up.
This year, the number of related topics on social media exceeded 1 billion times. Even though the official repeatedly clarified that "earthquakes cannot be accurately predicted", the cancellation rate of air tickets to Japan still surged by 35%. Travel companies lamented: "Summer orders have disappeared."
02 Shocking reversal: The prophet personally changed his words to reveal the truth
Just when people were panicking, Long Shuliang's new book "Angel's Last Words" set off a bigger bombshell. In the book, she clarified for the first time: "Not everything will happen on July 5", and revealed that the disaster content of the reprinted version of that year "was published under the leadership of the publisher".
"The date of the dream is not the date of the disaster," the 72-year-old cartoonist said helplessly in an interview, and the specific date marking was actually an over-interpretation by the editor when compiling the interview.
She admitted that although she did not deny dreaming about disaster scenes, those were just "possible scenes", and she was relieved to see that the incident unexpectedly promoted the improvement of disaster prevention awareness.

03 A century of struggle between science and prediction
Earthquake predictions have never been new in Japan: Kyodo News of Japan has issued a warning that the probability of a strong earthquake in 2025 is over 80%; the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo has developed a system that can warn 20 seconds in advance; but "dream predictions" that are accurate to a certain day and time are still regarded as coincidences by the scientific community.

This storm exposed the deep-seated earthquake anxiety in Japanese society. The traumatic memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, coupled with the frequent volcanic activities in recent years (such as the eruption of Shinmoe-dake) and the popularization of earthquake warning systems, have made people highly sensitive to disasters. The panic was amplified by the promotion of social media - a false message that "the disaster will come at 4:18 am on July 5" was forwarded more than one million times within 24 hours. It is worth noting that similar phenomena are not unique to Japan: in 2020, China also had a "Fuji eruption prophecy", which was eventually falsified by science. In fact, in an era with more developed information, the destructive power of rumors often exceeds the disaster itself, so it is very important to do a good job of information communication.

4：Instead of worrying about the authenticity of the prophecy, it is better to improve your own abilities

Faced with the chain reaction triggered by the prophecy, the Japanese government has taken multidimensional measures: on the one hand, it has strengthened disaster prevention science popularization, repeatedly emphasizing through media such as NHK that "earthquakes cannot predict specific dates"; On the other hand, optimize the warning system to ensure that the public receives alerts within 10 seconds after the earthquake. The international scientific community has also actively spoken out: the Institute of Earthquake Prediction of the China Earthquake Administration pointed out that currently humans can only make probabilistic predictions by monitoring crustal deformation, groundwater anomalies, and other phenomena, and cannot lock in specific times to break the unreliability of predictions.
July 5th will eventually pass, but the revelation left by this storm is worth pondering: in today's highly developed technology, why do some people still choose to believe in dream prophecies? The answer may lie in the fact that when uncertainty becomes the norm, humans instinctively crave to grasp some kind of 'certainty'. As Japanese disaster prevention experts have said, "The real disaster is not earthquakes, but the fear of earthquakes." Only by rationally viewing the boundaries of science can we hold the bottom line in the game between rumors and truth.

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