* March 11 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki ( b. 1865 )

* August 15 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki ( d. 1926 )

* May 11 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master ( b. 1880 )

* September 15 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master ( d. 1940 )

* Reiki ( era ), an era of Japanese history

There are two main branches of Reiki, commonly referred to as Traditional Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki.

Though differences can be wide and varied between both branches and traditions, the primary difference is that Westernised forms use systematised hand-placements rather than relying on an intuitive sense of hand-positions ( see below ), which is commonly used by Japanese Reiki branches.

Today many branches of Reiki exist, though there exist two major traditions, respectively called Traditional Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki.

Reiki written in Shinjitai Japanese.

The term Traditional Japanese Reiki is normally used to describe the specific system that formed from Usui's original teachings and the teachings that did not leave Japan.

They therefore started to establish Reiki schools, and started to teach Reiki levels 1 and 2 to the Japanese.

Around 1993, a German Reiki Master, Frank Arjava Petter, also started to teach to the Master / Teacher level, and as a result, the Japanese started teaching their knowledge of Traditional Reiki.

Since then, several traditions of Traditional Japanese Reiki have been established, the main traditions of which are listed below.

* Kōmyō Reiki Kai ( 光明レイキ會, meaning " Enlightened Spiritual Energy Meeting ( Association )") is the name given to the system that takes the name of a school of Japanese Traditional Reiki, and was established by Hyakuten Inamoto ( 稲本 百天 ), a Reiki teacher with Western Reiki background.

Most cars are right hand drive models, from Japanese or European manufacturers.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

The Japanese word irezumi means " insertion of ink " and can mean tattoos using tebori, the traditional Japanese hand method, a Western-style machine, or for that matter, any method of tattooing using insertion of ink.

Japan hoped to achieve what it called Man-Kan kōkan, the exchange of a free hand for Russia in Manchuria for a free hand for Japan in Korea, but Russia, feeling greatly superior to Japan and unwilling to give up its ability to use Korean ports for its navy, was in no mood to compromise ; its foreign minister, Vladimir Lamsdorf, " thought that time was on the side of his country because of the ( Trans-Siberian ) railway and there was no need to make concessions to the Japanese.

Gradually, the Japanese gained the upper hand.

The Japanese, on the other hand, were required by the terms of the surrender to both lay down their arms and maintain order ; a contradiction that some resolved by handing weapons to Japanese-trained Indonesians.

On the other hand, the Japanese car parts were virtually identical to each other, and much closer to the nominal values for the parts-e. g., if a part was supposed to be one foot long, plus or minus 1 / 8 of an inch-then the Japanese parts were all within 1 / 16 of an inch.

But disaster struck for Serrano in Detroit on August 2 of 1980, when, after leading on all scorecards, he was struck by a Yasutsune Uehara right hand to the chin in round six, and lost his title by knockout to the Japanese.

A shuriken ( Japanese 手裏剣 ; literally: " sword hidden in the hand ") is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing.

Japanese shuriken or sword hidden in the hand, these could be senbon or bo shuriken

Because his head resembles a hand, he has a special headbutt attack called the " Guu-Choki-Punch " ( Guu-Choki-Pa means Rock, Scissors, Paper in Japanese ).

A recent example of a show that was fansubbed entirely using Chinese subs is My-Otome ; Doremi, one of the groups that worked on the show, used two native Chinese speakers for the project, although several translation checkers were on hand to verify against the original Japanese.

The caves and bunkers were connected to a vast system throughout central Peleliu, which allowed the Japanese to evacuate or reoccupy positions as needed, and to take advantage of shrinking interior lines.

The Fujiwara dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) through the monopoly of regent positions, sesshō and kampaku.

In November 1943, Allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign.

Australian forces attack Japanese positions during the Battle of Buna – Gona.

He served in several key positions within the Imperial Japanese Army, and in 1886 was appointed Vice-Minister of War.

Allied warships bombarded the invasion beaches while U. S. carrier aircraft bombed Japanese positions on the target islands and destroyed 15 Japanese seaplanes at their base near Tulagi.

The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and of underground tunnels.

This invasion was the first American attack on Japanese home territory, and the Japanese soldiers and Marines defended their positions tenaciously with no thought of surrender.

The muzzles of machine guns protruding from loopholes on top of the walls were aimed directly at Japanese positions.

Marines engaging Japanese positions on Guam with a flamethrower

The Japanese land and begin to overrun the American positions.

In the Battle of the Tenaru, the firepower provided by del Valle's artillery units killed many assaulting Japanese soldiers before they ever reached the Marine positions.

During this time, when the battalion commanders of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines and, later, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, he expertly reorganized the battalion and led the successful attack against heavily fortified Japanese defensive positions.

Many Western practitioners use a common fixed set of 12 hand positions, while others use their intuition to guide them as to where treatment is needed as is the practise in Traditional Japanese Reiki, sometimes starting the treatment with a " scan " of the recipient to find such areas.

The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with vast bunkers, hidden artillery, and 18 kilometres ( 11 mi ) of tunnels.

The battle was the first U. S. attack on the Japanese Home Islands and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously.

In the Pacific Theater, during World War II, the Japanese used a labyrinth of underground fixed positions to slow down the Allied advances on many Pacific Islands.

The Japanese built fixed fortifications on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Guadalcanal using a system of underground tunnels to interconnect their fortified positions.

The Japanese caused the American advance to slow down and caused massive casualties with these underground fixed positions.

In actuality, the Japanese were fully capable of manufacturing their own muskets, and the shogunate even created several political positions to oversee their manufacture and inventory.