Jack Halpern (linguist)

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 Dictionarycite book |last=Halpern |first=Jack, ed. |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition=New ed. |date= |year=2002 |month= |publisher=Kodansha America |location=New York, NY |language= |id=ISBN 4-7700-2855-5 |doi = |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote = ] and the New Japanese-English Character Dictionarycite book |last=Halpern |first=Jack, ed. |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=New Japanese-English Dictionary |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition=New ed. |date= |year=1994 |month= |publisher= McGraw-Hill |location= |language= |id=ISBN 0844284343 |doi = |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote = ] .

Halpern is CEO of the [http://www.cjk.org/cjk/index.htm CJK Dictionary Institute] , offering electronic resources for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dictionary data. Halpern is also a Fellow at Showa Women's University.cite web|url=http://www.kanji.org/kanji/jack/personal/resume.htm| title=Introducing Jack Halpern]

Halpern also is the founder and current Executive Director for International Development of the International Unicycling Foundationcite web|url=http://unicycling.org/iuf/| title=International Unicycling Foundation] . 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 cite web|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.dollar.list#jack_halpern|title=Lifeboat Foundation Donor List] .

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