Now the story turns full circle, and Western style Reiki has returned to its country of birth. At one stage people believed that Reiki had died out in Japan, and that the only Reiki that remained in the world was the Western version. But Reiki Masters travelling in or living in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s discovered that there were Reiki practitioners there who were doing things that were very different from the Reiki that we had become used to in the West. It was also discovered that there was an association called the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (Usui's Reiki Healing System Association) which to begin with seemed to have been established by Usui. Now we know that this is not the case. The Gakkai was set up as a sort of 'memorial' society by the three Naval Officers. Tatsumi described it as an 'officer's club' and now it has almost the sort of place in Japanese society that Freemasons occupy in the West: most people have heard of the 'Gakkai, but they are not quite sure what they do. It's all a bit mysterious but you need to be a member if you are going to get on in business in politics. 

As well as the 'Gakkai', there are other Reiki practitioners in Japan whose Reiki to varying degrees follows some of Usui's original form of Reiki. 

Now Japan is experiencing a big explosion of Reiki, but it is mostly Western-style.