James William Breen is a Research Fellow at Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

 in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, where he was a professor in the area of telecommunications before his retirement in 2003. He is well known for his involvement in several popular free Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

-related projects: the EDICT

EDICT

The JMdict/EDICT project was started by Jim Breen in 1991 with the aim to provide a machine-readable Japanese to English dictionary. Since that time it has been updated and expanded by many contributors. The dictionaries resulting from the project are simply text files; other programs are needed to...

 and JMDict Japanese-English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC kanji

Kanji

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

 dictionary, and the WWWJDIC

WWWJDIC

WWWJDIC is an online Japanese dictionary based on the electronic dictionaries compiled and collected by Australian academic Jim Breen. The main Japanese–English dictionary files contain around 150,000 entries, and the ENAMDICT dictionary contains over 720,000 Japanese names...

portal which provides an interface to search them.

His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive". His 150,000-word lexicon has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai.

He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.

External links

• Jim Breen's home page
• The EDICT home page
• The WWWJDIC online Japanese dictionary
• "Who is Jim Breen?" IDNBlog, 30 March 2010 http://idnblog.com/2010/04/01/who-is-jim-breen-2/