About The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. (CJKI) specializes in CJK and Arabic computational lexicography. The institute creates and maintains CJK (Chinese, Japanese and
Korean) and Arabic lexical databases currently covering approximately 50 million entries. Located in Saitama, Japan, CJKI is headed by Jack Halpern, editor-in-chief of
the world-renowned New Japanese-English Character Dictionary and of various other CJK dictionaries.
CJKI plays a leading role in helping the IT industry penetrate the lucrative East Asian market by providing software developers with high quality dictionary data. This
includes comprehensive databases of general vocabulary, proper nouns and technical terms for CJK languages, including Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and
Hakka. CJKI also maintains databases and romanization systems of Arabic proper nouns, a large-scale Spanish-English dictionary, and various multilingual databases of
proper nouns and geographic data.
CJKI has become one of the world’s prime sources for CJK lexical resources. It is contributing to CJK and Arabic information processing technology by providing high-
quality lexical resources and professional consulting services to some of the world’s leading software developers and IT companies, including Fujitsu, Sharp, Sony, IBM,
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and Baidu.
The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
34-14, 2-chome, Tohoku, Niiza-shi, Saitama 352-0001 JAPAN
Phone: 048-473-3508 Fax: 048-486-5032
Email: [email protected] Web: www.cjk.org