Jack Halpern (linguist)

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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 Foundation[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].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Halpern, Jack, ed. (2002). Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, New ed., New York, NY: Kodansha America. ISBN 4-7700-2855-5. 
  2. ^ Halpern, Jack, ed. (1994). New Japanese-English Dictionary, New ed., McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0844284343. 
  3. ^ Introducing Jack Halpern.
  4. ^ International Unicycling Foundation.
  5. ^ Lifeboat Foundation Donor List.
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