The much-hyped 4:18 a.m. “Doomsday Quake” never came. A viral manga prophecy predicting a megaquake and tsunami off the Japanese coast shook the nation with fear—but when the time came, there was only ...

As Mount Shinmoedake in southern Japan roared to life on July 2, spewing ash and anxiety across parts of Kyushu, panic gripped the nation. All because of a chilling prophecy buried in a decades-old ...