The Kodansha Kanji DictionaryThe Kodansha Kanji Dictionary a revised, expanded edition of Jack Halpern's groundbreaking New Japanese English Character Dictionary is the most complete, linguistically accurate, and up to date dictionary of its kind. The culmination of more than twenty years of labor some one hundred man years this authoritative and easy to use dictionary has been celebrated the world over by students and teachers of the Japanese language for its wealth of detailed