Jack Halpern

Editor-in-Chief JACK HALPERN is the CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan. The institute is one of the world's prime sources for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) dictionaries, and specializes in compiling comprehensive CJK and Arabic lexical databases. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern has spent more than forty years compiling dictionaries. He is the editor-in-chief of The Kodansha Kanji Usage Guide , The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary , and the best-selling Kodansha Kanji...See more

Editor-in-Chief JACK HALPERN is the CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan. The institute is one of the world's prime sources for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) dictionaries, and specializes in compiling comprehensive CJK and Arabic lexical databases. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern has spent more than forty years compiling dictionaries. He is the editor-in-chief of The Kodansha Kanji Usage Guide , The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary , and the best-selling Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded . Halpern is also an avid polyglot, having studied 15 languages (ten of which he speaks fluently). See less