My name is Michael Frazer. I started this site to get the word out: there is a better way to study Japanese kanji. It’s called KiC-Anki, and it is a user-friendly, efficient, and flexible method of learning the 2,136 Jōyō kanji. For more on the KiC-Anki method, read my paper on the KiC-Anki Method of Self-Studying Kanji available here.
How am I different from everyone else trying to sell their Japanese language lessons or study materials online? Well, I’m not selling anything. It took me several years to figure out that I had been studying kanji incorrectly and another several years to learn them the right way. I am here only because I want to save you the trouble of wasting precious time on kanji.
My credentials. I have seven years of formal Japanese language training at universities across the United States and Japan. (I have studied Japanese at the the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies; The Ohio State University; Stanford University; New York University; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Nagoya University; and Kansai Gaidai University.) I have lived in Japan for three and a half years. I have a bachelor’s in Linguistics from New York University and a master’s in East Asian Studies from The Ohio State University. I wrote my unofficial undergraduate thesis on Japanese script reform. I wrote my graduate thesis on Japanese economic history (read my thesis here).
The KiC-Anki Method 