Jack Halpern

Who is Jack Halpern?

Jack Halpern 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 and the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary.

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.

Halpern also is the founder and current Executive Director for International Development of the International Unicycling Federation. 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.