Authorities on Friday evacuated some residents from remote islands close to the epicentre of a 5.5-magnitude quake off the tip of the southernmost main island of Kyushu.
“With our current scientific knowledge, it’s difficult to predict the exact time, place or scale of an earthquake,“ said Ayataka Ebita, director of the Japan Meteorological Agency’s earthquake and tsunami monitoring division, after a 5.4-magnitude quake shook the area again on Saturday.
The manga, which some have interpreted as predicting a catastrophic event on Saturday, has prompted some travellers to avoid Japan. Arrivals from Hong Kong, where the rumours have circulated widely, were down 11% in May from the same month last year, according to the latest data.
Ryo Tatsuki, the artist behind the manga “The Future I Saw”, first published in 1999 and re-released in 2021, said she was “not a prophet”, in a statement issued by her publisher.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. It accounts for about one-fifth of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. (Reporting by Tim Kelly in Tokyo; Editing by William Mallard)
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