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Jack Halpern (春遍雀來, ハルペン・ジャック) is an entrepreneur and linguist specializing in Chinese characters or Kanji. He is best known as Editor in Chief for the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary[1] and the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary[2].

Halpern is CEO of the CJK Dictionary Institute, offering electronic resources for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dictionary data. Halpern is also a Fellow at Showa Women's University.[3]

Halpern also is the founder and current Executive Director for International Development of the International Unicycling Federation[4]. Halpern is a major contributor to the Lifeboat Foundation, a project which aims to build a space colony so that humanity can survive in the event of the Earth's destruction [5].

References

  1. ^ Halpern, Jack, ed. (2002). Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary (New ed. ed.). New York, NY: Kodansha America. ISBN 4-7700-2855-5.  
  2. ^ Halpern, Jack, ed. (1994). New Japanese-English Dictionary (New ed. ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0844284343.  
  3. ^ "Introducing Jack Halpern". http://www.kanji.org/kanji/jack/personal/resume.htm.  
  4. ^ "International Unicycling Federation". http://unicycling.org/iuf/.  
  5. ^ "Lifeboat Foundation Donor List". http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.dollar.list#jack_halpern.  







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