Dr. Usui
Mikao Usui was not a doctor. His title was "sensei", a term meaning teacher or master. The term "doctor" in the West of course was originally applied to academics, initially of the church. The term "sensei" is applied to teacher of Japanese martial arts such as Karate.

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Minister/Christian school
Mikao Usui was not a Christian. He had no connection with any Christian school, either as a lecturer or principal.
The Japanese claim that he was a member of a spiritual group named "Rei Jyutsu Ka". This group had a centre at the base of the holy mountain, Juruama Yama, just west of Kyoto. Yama translates into mountain and Kurama to horse saddle. There are two shrines on the mountain; one at the top and one near the bottom. The shrine at the bottom is a very large statue of the Amida Buddha with it's base placed well below ground level. Steps lead down to the base where one can sit and meditate. This may have been one of Usui's meditation sites, although there can be a lot of people visiting there.

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Chicago, USA
He never went to Chicago. The University of Chicago Divinity School did not even exist at that time. There is a well known library with religious and theological works from around the world in Kyoto. The Japanese do not think Usui would have needed to travel far to do his research.

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Usui enters monastery
Usui was sent to a Tendai monastery at age 4 where he remained for several years.

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Meditating on the mountain
After spending many years in his search for a way of connecting to the energy without spending years of exercises and training, he meditated at Kumara Temple in the region of a "power spot", where he is said to have undergone a twenty-one day period of purification and meditation.

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The Four Miracles
Stories regarding a spontaneously healing stubbed toe and the eating of a huge meal, followed by the curing of a dental abscess should not be treated with much credibility. They only appear in the Western version of the story.

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Beggar
He is said to have spent seven years in the lower class district of Kyoto. Kyoto is a religious centre and a former capital city and apparently in most Japanese towns and cities, people on the street are taken in and cared for, and each family looks out for it's own. So the story about Usui working with the beggars may have been stretched a bit, or just misunderstood in the West.