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Hawayo Takata did what she could for Reiki to survive in the Western world. Reiki historians showed that some of the stories relayed by Takata weren’t true. However, history now shows Takata to be the Reiki heroine that she truly was. She managed to preserve a Japanese healing method in Hawaii, the very state that was bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.

Hawayo Takata fought discrimination on both sides, as the Japanese saw her as an American. Even today, the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai doesn’t train those from other countries or admit them as members of their organization. It’s a miracle that Chujiro Hayashi (see the earlier section “Exploring the Medical Approach: Chujiro Hayashi”) trained her and helped her with her Reiki practice.

Her work brought Reiki to the West, and students of her system even taught in Japan. It had been unknown that there were active Reiki lineages that had survived in Japan. This spread of Reiki encouraged more Japanese Reiki practitioners to communicate, teach, and practice Reiki. It’s impossible to know for sure where Reiki would be today without Takata, but it’s certain that she played a seminal role in Reiki history.