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Tom May

A comic book just grounded planes and decimated tourism in Japan – for real

Cover of Japanese comic book The Future I Saw.

It sounds like the plot of a comic itself. A manga artist has a dream, draws it, and decades later, the world responds not with admiration, but with cancelled holidays, empty flights, and spiralling tourism numbers.

But that’s exactly what happened this weekend in Japan.

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