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Jim Breen

Australian linguist · Australia · On the map · Academics · Born 1947 · age 79

James William Breen is an Australian retired academic, computational linguist and lexicographer.

Jim Breen is read about 5 times a day, in 5 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 20 September 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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He is best known for creating and maintaining several foundational free resources for Japanese language learning and computational linguistics, including the EDICT/JMDict Japanese-English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC kanji dictionary, and the WWWJDIC online search portal. These resources are considered "reliable and close to comprehensive" and form the backbone of many popular Japanese dictionary applications and websites.

Country
Australia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1947 · age 79

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