July 5th, 4 a.m.

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The date 2025-7-5 is dreaded by very many Japanese if not most. It is so well known that tourists planning to visit Japan in the summer changed to an earlier time and the Japanese airliners have reduced flights in July due to a lack of bookings. Reason: A manga artist Tatsuki predicted that at shortly after 4 a.m. on that day a great tsunami will strike Japan and submerge 1/3 of it. She has gained reputation by predicting the Fukushima tsunami years earlier and of her 15 predictions, 14 of them have come true.

What is worse, she is in some way supported by the predictions of a few well-known prophets including Biggs and a revered Thai prophetess Play. The Indian young prophet Annan said somwhere off Argentina. Even Parker was said to say seeing a dark mushroom cloud above an ocean. The following video in Mandarin has a very good synopsis of the main predictions. Unfortunately the subtitle is disabled. I manage to download the audio and make an AI translation of it. The non-Chinese user may watch the video while reading the transcript.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=64w6yq1iDgg

English Transcript:

Hello everyone, I'm Fuyao Hui, here to explore unsolved mysteries. Everyone says that 2025 is simply a disaster year. Starting with the major earthquake in Myanmar in March, earthquake news seems to have never stopped.
By the end of April, internet celebrity prophet Biggs jumped out again with a warning, speaking with extreme certainty that this time it's really coming. A major earthquake is imminent, and we only have three months left to prepare. Everyone was stunned upon hearing this - is this real or fake?
How does this Biggs know the future? He says he just sees it - those future images appear in his mind on their own. This earthquake is like that. In the images, the U.S. West Coast and Canada's British Columbia, which is around the Vancouver area, are violently shaking with buildings collapsing one after another. Skyscrapers are falling directly into the sea. The devastation is so severe that the estimated death toll could reach 50,000 people.
Not only that, the earthquake extends all the way across the entire state of California, reaching Japan on the other side. Japan not only experiences earthquakes but also volcanic eruptions, suffering a double blow. The seismic waves even reach Africa. What's even more chilling is that Biggs also warned that many of you, once you go to sleep one night, will never wake up again.
Because this disaster is of global magnitude, even worse than Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. What happened to those two cities? Simply put, because people were too chaotic and deviated from moral standards, they angered God, who brought down disaster. As a result, the entire cities were destroyed overnight.
Coincidentally, just as Biggs finished speaking, on May 2nd, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake actually occurred off the coasts of Chile and Argentina in South America. The U.S. Tsunami Warning Center immediately issued an alert, and local governments were extremely nervous, requiring everyone to evacuate quickly.
Online, videos quickly spread showing streets full of fleeing people, cars stuck in traffic jams, and long lines at gas stations - everyone was very nervous. Fortunately, the major tsunami didn't materialize in the end, the warning was lifted, and everyone returned to normal life.
But to say no one was frightened would be impossible. However, why did this warning make so many people feel terrified? Because Chile, Argentina, California, Vancouver, and even Japan - while these places may seem geographically distant from each other, underground they're all connected by the same nerve.
That is to say, they're all on the Ring of Fire earthquake belt. You should know that over 90% of the world's earthquakes occur here, on this one earthquake belt. How did this extremely long earthquake belt come about?
Let's first take a simple look at Earth's puzzle. The Earth's surface is actually pieced together by several major plates, like assembling Lego blocks. Currently, there are mainly six major plates: the African Plate, American Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, Pacific Plate, and Antarctic Plate. Don't look at the Pacific as just a body of water - underneath the Pacific Ocean is actually one enormous Pacific Plate.
According to current theories, what happens between these plates? It's simple - they're all slowly moving, some colliding with each other, some rubbing against each other. Long ago, when the Pacific Plate moved west and collided with the Eurasian Plate, what happened? Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines emerged. When it pushed east and hit the American Plate, it squeezed out the spectacular Rocky Mountain range, extending from the United States all the way to Canada.
So this is why Japan and California, although separated by an entire Pacific Ocean, are actually not unrelated. These two places are like the two ends of a seesaw - when one side moves, the other side will also shake.
From a geological perspective, when California shakes, Japan will shake too - this is completely reasonable. And now South America is also starting to shake. So now many people are asking: does this mean that the major underground plates are all starting to move? Is the super earthquake that Biggs mentioned really approaching?
Calculating carefully from the day he issued his warning, April 30th, plus the three-month deadline he mentioned - hey, that's exactly the end of July.
[Note: There appears to be an advertisement section here about health supplements that seems unrelated to the main earthquake prediction content]
Coincidentally, also in April, before Biggs issued this warning, someone in Thailand also jumped out to issue a warning. Psychic medium Play spoke out, saying that Japan would very likely experience an earthquake between July and August, and this earthquake would also affect Mount Fuji. Not only that, an underwater volcano between Japan and Indonesia might also erupt, potentially affecting even places like Singapore and Thailand.
However, she also said that Mount Fuji probably wouldn't erupt because she didn't see volcanic ash, but she saw something even more terrifying: tsunamis.
Who is this Play? Like Biggs, she's also someone who can see the future and possesses supernatural abilities. She says that since childhood, she's had a spiritual constitution and could see things that ordinary people can't see. At age seven or eight, she could chat with spirits. Once, she even went to the underworld and met the King of Hell.
So everyone became more interested - hey, what does the King of Hell look like? Play smiled after hearing this and said the heavenly secrets cannot be revealed; we can't say too much. However, she did add that hell is real, and the oil cauldrons there are indeed very hot.
By age seventeen or eighteen, she began to be able to contact deities from other dimensions. Her method of communicating with deities is also quite special - not through speaking, but through burning incense and meditation rituals. She says this way she can receive messages from gods, and images begin to appear in her mind.
When did she become known to the public? It was in 2014 when she successfully predicted the Malaysia Airlines disappearance case and became famous overnight. She even made even more shocking claims on TV shows, saying that Malaysia Airlines didn't actually disappear but was sucked into a mysterious triangular magnetic field, and the entire plane fell into a parallel space-time.
She said the plane's wreckage might not be found until forty or fifty years later, but it definitely wouldn't be a complete aircraft. As for the people on the plane, Play said regrettably that they wouldn't be coming back.
This gradually brought her to public attention. In 2019, she predicted the COVID pandemic, and this almost made Thai people revere her as a semi-deity. Media invitations were constant, and TV shows came one after another.
But like many prophets, some of her predictions were accurate while others were not. For example, in 2023, her prediction about Thailand's general election was unsuccessful. At that time, criticism quickly appeared online, saying her motives were impure and that she wanted to use predictions to influence the election. Helplessly, Play could only choose silence and temporarily disappear.
It wasn't until last December that she finally appeared again on a TV show. This time, her warning was very clear: between March and April of next year, Myanmar would experience a major earthquake, Bangkok would also be affected, and it might even cause building collapses.
Now everyone has seen the result - her prediction hit the mark again, and it was so accurate it sent chills down people's spines.
So how accurate was this prediction exactly? Let's look at the building collapse incident that occurred in Bangkok, Thailand during this earthquake. Bangkok is over 1,000 kilometers away from Myanmar's Mandalay, the earthquake's epicenter - roughly the distance from Beijing to Shanghai.
Logically, such a distance should have no impact. For example, when the magnitude 7.8 Tangshan earthquake occurred near Beijing, it turned the entire city into ruins, but Shanghai was fine.
But this time, coincidentally on the very day of the Myanmar earthquake, a government building under construction in Bangkok - the new office building of the National Audit Office - suddenly collapsed with a loud crash, becoming ruins within seconds.
Moreover, throughout all of Bangkok, this was the only building that collapsed on the day of the earthquake. This is too strange - all other buildings were fine, but just this one newly built government building collapsed. Soon, someone leaked that this seemed to have nothing to do with the earthquake; it was Chinese contractors cutting corners, causing construction quality problems, with significant corruption behind it.
But this incident still exploded online instantly. Major media outlets reported frantically, and the news became so hot that it overshadowed the earthquake itself, becoming front-page headlines.
We just finished talking about Play's prediction. She didn't make a bunch of predictions but only mentioned one thing - building collapse, right? So did she really see the future and see this big news?
Thinking about this is truly frightening, because she not only predicted this Myanmar earthquake but also issued the same warning as Biggs. If this is really the case, then would the Japan major earthquake prediction in reality also unfold according to script, just like the future Play saw?
What's even more coincidental is that whether it's the timing, location, or the combination disaster mode of earthquake plus volcanic eruption, Play's prediction and Biggs' are almost like reading from the same script. Some netizens are wondering if these two people saw the same disaster.
Exaggeratedly, this isn't the end of this apocalyptic broadcast - there's a third person.
This third person is the Japanese manga artist Tatsuki Ryo, whom we've introduced before, who predicts the future through dreams. As early as 1999, she drew a manga that mentioned July 5, 2025, morning, when Japan would experience a super earthquake. Just hearing this, the timing seems incredibly precise.
She dreamed that on that day, the seabed between Japan and the Philippines would suddenly crack open with a huge fissure. Then massive amounts of magma would erupt from the crack, triggering tsunamis hundreds of meters high. These tsunamis would sweep down directly from Japan - Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia would all be hit. Basically, no country around the Pacific would be spared.
In the end, only two-thirds of Japan would remain. Magically, the continental plates seemed to shift - Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines would actually connect together, becoming a new continental plate: the New Pacific Continent.
Of course, hearing this, many friends might think this is too exaggerated. Geological changes typically take millions or tens of millions of years to occur - how could a new continent be created overnight?
Tatsuki Ryo calmly said, "Anyway, this is what I dreamed. Believe it or not." Tatsuki Ryo also mentioned another point - she also saw Japan's Mount Fuji erupting. First, the mountaintop was smoking, then there was a loud bang, and magma shot up into the sky.
In short, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions - all the elements a disaster movie should have were there. Would everyone suspect that this Japanese woman really saw the future? Or does she want to use these sensational stories to gain fans, make money, and generate traffic?
Fans say: Our Ryo girl disappeared from public view after making her predictions. If she really wanted to make big money from predictions, with such great online opportunities these days, how could she not make any sound at all?
Well, this makes sense. More importantly, she wrote very clearly in her prophecy that she herself would also die in this great tsunami. She even very calmly left what seemed like last words, saying: "If my mission is to sound the alarm bell to people in preparation for this day's arrival, then it also means my mission will end in 2025."
When these words came out, the air instantly froze. No one would joke about their own life and death. Perhaps she doesn't care whether you believe her or not - she's just fulfilling her final responsibility by speaking out what she saw.
Alright, so now the question comes: are these three people seeing the same scene?
Wait, someone else has jumped out, mysteriously saying there's a fourth person who painted a picture. This isn't some obscure prophetic image, but a world-famous painting that most people have seen.
Let's first review Tatsuki Ryo's dream. She said that after that day's devastating tsunami, everything changed. Under a pedestrian bridge in Yokohama, she saw three ships. Why three ships? Not two, not four, but exactly three?
If you search online for "tsunami Yokohama three ships," what will you find? The search results will lead you to a Japanese ukiyo-e masterpiece: "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
This comes from the legendary Edo period painter Katsushika Hokusai. The scene depicts the sea surface near Yokohama, with three boats floating in giant waves, and boatmen desperately rowing.
This painting has national treasure status in Japan. Even the new 1,000 yen banknotes issued in 2024 feature it on the back. But what people might not know is that when this painting was first published in Japan in the 1830s, one print cost only the price of two bowls of ramen.
Because ukiyo-e was the popular colored woodblock print of the time, similar to today's printed paintings that could be mass-produced, so the price was quite cheap. However, when it reached Europe, it mysteriously became popular. The European art world collectively became fans, and many artists had one hanging in their homes, saying they could find inspiration from the painting.
In 2021, this painting sold for $1.59 million at a New York auction, equivalent to over 10 million yuan. It transformed from a printed artwork to a world-class art treasure - a complete success story.
Once the painting became famous, people began studying it. Someone raised a question: just how high is this wave? Scholars actually seriously calculated this, saying that based on the ship's dimensions, the wave crest is probably about 10-12 meters high, which completely meets tsunami standards.
But soon others researched and said that in Hokusai's era, there had never been any tsunamis around Yokohama, not even any particularly large waves. And Hokusai himself was known as a painter with a realistic style, not one who liked fantasy.
The question arises: why would he paint such exaggerated waves? Where did his inspiration come from? No one can say for sure to this day.
But do you know that since the 1960s, this giant wave has been increasingly interpreted as a tsunami by more and more people? Speaking of tsunamis, do you know how the English word "tsunami" came about? It's a transliteration of the Japanese word "tsunami," meaning waves at the harbor.
In 1963, at the International Geoscience Conference, this word was officially listed as international professional terminology, becoming the specialized term for tsunamis. In 2003, UNESCO even used Hokusai's painting as a template to publish the official tsunami danger zone symbol.
From then on, this great wave officially became the global visual symbol for tsunamis.
Looking back at this painting more carefully, you'll find it really contains too many intriguing details. First, let's look at the weather that day - it doesn't seem severe. From the lighting and color tone, it's a clear morning with the sun just rising, and there are no signs of storms in the sky. But precisely in this calm moment, a shocking giant wave rises from the sea.
So where exactly does this wave come from? If it's not an earthquake, what else could it be?
Looking at Mount Fuji in the distance, this mountain that's almost sacred in Japanese culture is usually depicted as very majestic in general artwork. But in this painting, it appears so small as to be almost vulnerable, and it's surrounded by layers of dark clouds.
Is this hinting that even the sacred mountain will not be spared? What's even more disturbing is that between the waves and Mount Fuji, you can't see any land at all. The entire painting only shows three small boats struggling to survive under the wave crests.
Could this be saying that Japan will face devastating disaster, with large areas of land disappearing from the map?
Finally, let's look at that wave. It doesn't look like ordinary water waves but has grown sharp claws, reaching toward people with bared fangs and claws. This shape of wave has a specialized term in the art world called "tiger claw waves."
How fierce are tigers? Doesn't this seem like some kind of warning that invisible crisis is quietly approaching?
Is all this Hokusai's unintentional artistic imagination, or, as Tatsuki Ryo's prophecy suggests, is this painting's true mission to warn us about the arrival of an ultimate great tsunami more than a hundred years later, for today?
So will this disaster really come?
Don't panic yet - prophecies can be accurate or inaccurate, right? Let's look at it from another angle and see what scientists say.
On August 8, 2024, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. After the earthquake, experts immediately issued warnings to pay special attention to abnormal movements in the Nankai Trough.
In April this year, Japan's Earthquake Research Committee issued its latest warning: the probability of a major earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough in the future is as high as 80%, and once it happens, it's predicted to cause 300,000 deaths.
Where is the Nankai Trough? It's exactly in the area of the underwater crack that Tatsuki Ryo saw in her dream.
So the question comes: would such an earthquake really trigger a super tsunami?
Let's look at historical data again. There have been about 260 recorded destructive tsunamis globally, occurring on average every six to seven years. Among these, 80% of tsunamis occurred on the Ring of Fire earthquake belt we introduced earlier.
We can review several recent major tsunami events: One was December 26, 2004, when a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred off Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering a great tsunami that killed 300,000 people.
March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake occurred off Japan's northeast coast. The massive tsunami caused over 18,000 deaths or disappearances and triggered the Fukushima nuclear leak crisis, causing global panic.
September 28, 2018, another major earthquake occurred near Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami with nearly 7,000 deaths and disappearances.
Did everyone notice? These major tsunamis are almost all separated by seven years. If this is a natural cycle, then the next one would be exactly 2025. Will it be Japan's turn this time? Is Japan really doomed?
Maybe not necessarily. I don't know when it started, but a mysterious Japanese prophecy has been spreading wildly online. It's said to come from a very unusual physicist, Yasue Kunio.
According to Wikipedia, he's a famous Japanese theoretical physicist who was a pioneer in quantum brain dynamics in his early years. But after 2010, his research direction suddenly took a wonderful turn. He began investing in exploration of the spirit world, aliens, and human consciousness.
So it's not so surprising that such a cross-disciplinary scientist would suddenly publish a bizarre prophecy, right?
Although we can't verify whether this prophecy actually came from him, the content is indeed very attractive. A U.S. NASA official privately revealed to Yasue that America has long possessed accurate information about the great disaster that will occur on July 5, 2025. Not only does the timing match, but even the location is strikingly consistent with Tatsuki Ryo's prophecy.
However, Yasue suspects this might not be an earthquake but an asteroid impact event. Because according to his professional knowledge, earthquakes simply cannot be predicted that precisely. But if it's a celestial body colliding with Earth, humans can now accurately predict it two years in advance, and the timing can even be precise to the second.
The prophecy then points out that America once launched a secret plan to deal with the great disaster. But this plan has now been cancelled. The question comes: what exactly is this so-called cancelled plan? Was the originally predicted disaster cancelled? Or was the defense system originally meant to deal with asteroid impacts cancelled?
More coincidentally, July 5th morning in Japan time corresponds exactly to July 4th, Independence Day, in American time. Is there really some possibility of human manipulation behind this?
Yasue didn't provide much explanation, just lightly threw out this series of questions, leaving everyone to think for themselves.
July 5, 2025, is getting closer and closer. So what do you think - will this ultimate great disaster really come?
But even if disaster comes, everyone shouldn't be afraid. Let's read a passage from Tatsuki Ryo's book as today's closing words: "The future is full of light and hope - this absolutely will not be wrong. The state of the entire Earth and all humanity is bright, glorious, and full of vitality. The evolution of heart and soul is about to happen. Everyone helps each other and cooperates with each other. All things will progress in positive directions."
Alright, today's story ends here. This is Unsolved Mysteries, I'm Fuyao, see you next time.

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I am surprised how little attention was given to Tatsuki's dream predictions when they are so accurate. I have watched many videos in Chinese talking about her. Many were well presented and dated a few years back. To the Asians, this prophecy is as impactful as the end-day prediction of 2012. But just like 2012, it is likely not to happen.

However, in a sense, the Mayan calendar is not wrong. If we accept a 10 year error out of the thousands of years cycle, haven't most humans been injected with the gene-altering vaccines, together with AI and transitioning to human 2.0? I think the date may not be exact, but a cataclysm in the Ring of Fire region is going to happen. I have found one English video on Tatsuki that might be more interesting to the western audience.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MT5pPxDPo_Y