James William Breen (born 1947) is a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor in the area of telecommunications before his retirement in 2003.^[1] He is well known for his involvement in several popular free Japanese-related projects: the EDICT and JMDict Japanese-English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC kanji dictionary, and the WWWJDIC portal which provides an interface to search them.^[1][2]

His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive".^[1] His 100,000-word lexicon has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai.^[1]

He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Alexander Jacoby (2006-11-21). "Net resources make light work of Japanese study". The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20061121a1.html. Retrieved 2008-02-02. 
2. ^ Mary Sisk Noguchi (2002-08-30). "KANJI CLINIC: Cyberspace — the final frontier of kanji-learning". The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20020830mn.html. Retrieved 2008-02-03. 
3. ^ "About the JSC". Monash Asia Institute, Monash University. 2007-12-07. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/jsc/about.php. Retrieved 2008-02-02. 

[edit] External links

• Jim Breen's home page
• The EDICT home page
• The WWWJDIC online Japanese dictionary

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