Japan's weather agency said an earthquake that rattled small islands in the country's southwest on Saturday was in no way connected to a manga author's disaster prediction that went viral on social media and even affected inbound tourism."It is absolutely a coincidence. There is no causal connection," Ayataka Ebita of the Japan Meteorological Agency said at a press conference on the day the prediction was supposed to materialize -- a claim authorities have repeatedly dismissed as a "baseless rumor."Earlier in the day, a temblor with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Tokara islan…READ FULL ARTICLE
