tldr Fewer superstitious/ gullible are visiting Japan.
I wish the manga had made the date around Sakura or kouyou season.
I was at the bar counter at TGI Fridays last night, and the bartender was saying that there’s been a definite drop off in tourists due to paranoia over the big quake coming.
There should be a database of superstition-based cancellations so that we can fill those spots
How odd that they show a photo of an Air India jet.
👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Love it. Less full flights from mainland. Rock n roll.
Wait until the year 2000 will come!!!Then the whole world will end!!!
Oh wait…that date has already passed 😓
She didn’t even “write about” the tsunami. It was just a date and “natural disaster” on a notebook cover, as a background to a panel, and one of several in that panel. Someone *else* noticed it and it spread from there. It’s like drafting a guy who only made a half court shot.
when is the next disaster prediction so i can plan my vacation around that
I live in Osaka and notice a lot less Asian tourists right now than usual and also western tourists too(but I think that is more due to the heat)
I really don’t mind if these fucking morons stay away from Japan.
Superstitious idiots. I’m surprised they don’t think cameras will steal their souls.
less crowds yay! shame the weather is literal hell on earth so we can’t even enjoy it.
It’s bad luck to be superstitious.
I’m more worried about the feedback influx of tourists that will visit once July is over
Domestic tourists are apparently avoiding Okinawa too, because the tsunami is supposed to be the worst around Okinawa and the Philippines. Which is great news for me living here, except that locals are superstitious too and will probably panic-buy all the bottled water and toilet paper
LOL Japan: too much tourism, not enough tourism, WAH!
(I live here and totally get it tho)
As someone who experienced the 2011 Higashi Nihon Earthquake and the stupidity of people’s behaviour after, none of this comes as any surprise. Dumb people believe dumb shit.
The Monday (14th March) after the earthquake I cycled from my apartment in Katsushika ku into Chiyoda ku. I went down to Jimbocho and noticed the pachinko parlours just off Yasukuni dori were open as normal, and punters were blithely losing their money as usual. That’s when I realized i had nothing to worry about. It’s when pachinko stops that you find out you’re in a world of shit.
But yeah, anything that helps slow down Tokyo’s descent into a hellhole full of Eurotrash who should be in Bali or Ko Samui is fine by me.
Everyone saying “good, less gullible people in Japan”…
You realize as soon as this supposed “deadline” passes and nothing of note happens, those chucklefucks will book their flights to come over again… right?
This superstitious horsekak isn’t stopping anything, it’s just creating a future traffic jam of numpties to turn up at a later date.
I am from Hong Kong, and a frequent traveller to Japan. I felt ashamed of the kind of bull shit “prediction” our media propagated, which cause the dip of tourists going to Japan from certain places. At the same time, I guess everybody else are glad that this brouhaha happened.
can we have more mega quake predictions? specially around Spring, perhaps Autumn even.
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tldr Fewer superstitious/ gullible are visiting Japan.
I wish the manga had made the date around Sakura or kouyou season.
I was at the bar counter at TGI Fridays last night, and the bartender was saying that there’s been a definite drop off in tourists due to paranoia over the big quake coming.
There should be a database of superstition-based cancellations so that we can fill those spots
How odd that they show a photo of an Air India jet.
👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Love it. Less full flights from mainland. Rock n roll.
Wait until the year 2000 will come!!!Then the whole world will end!!!
Oh wait…that date has already passed 😓
She didn’t even “write about” the tsunami. It was just a date and “natural disaster” on a notebook cover, as a background to a panel, and one of several in that panel. Someone *else* noticed it and it spread from there. It’s like drafting a guy who only made a half court shot.
when is the next disaster prediction so i can plan my vacation around that
I live in Osaka and notice a lot less Asian tourists right now than usual and also western tourists too(but I think that is more due to the heat)
I really don’t mind if these fucking morons stay away from Japan.
Superstitious idiots. I’m surprised they don’t think cameras will steal their souls.
less crowds yay! shame the weather is literal hell on earth so we can’t even enjoy it.
It’s bad luck to be superstitious.
I’m more worried about the feedback influx of tourists that will visit once July is over
Domestic tourists are apparently avoiding Okinawa too, because the tsunami is supposed to be the worst around Okinawa and the Philippines. Which is great news for me living here, except that locals are superstitious too and will probably panic-buy all the bottled water and toilet paper
LOL Japan: too much tourism, not enough tourism, WAH!
(I live here and totally get it tho)
As someone who experienced the 2011 Higashi Nihon Earthquake and the stupidity of people’s behaviour after, none of this comes as any surprise. Dumb people believe dumb shit.
The Monday (14th March) after the earthquake I cycled from my apartment in Katsushika ku into Chiyoda ku. I went down to Jimbocho and noticed the pachinko parlours just off Yasukuni dori were open as normal, and punters were blithely losing their money as usual. That’s when I realized i had nothing to worry about. It’s when pachinko stops that you find out you’re in a world of shit.
But yeah, anything that helps slow down Tokyo’s descent into a hellhole full of Eurotrash who should be in Bali or Ko Samui is fine by me.
Everyone saying “good, less gullible people in Japan”…
You realize as soon as this supposed “deadline” passes and nothing of note happens, those chucklefucks will book their flights to come over again… right?
This superstitious horsekak isn’t stopping anything, it’s just creating a future traffic jam of numpties to turn up at a later date.
I am from Hong Kong, and a frequent traveller to Japan. I felt ashamed of the kind of bull shit “prediction” our media propagated, which cause the dip of tourists going to Japan from certain places. At the same time, I guess everybody else are glad that this brouhaha happened.
can we have more mega quake predictions? specially around Spring, perhaps Autumn even.