AUTHOR: Cameron Penwell

Cameron Penwell is a Japanese reference specialist in the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. His prior professional experience includes teaching East Asian history and working as a translator and editor in Tokyo. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and Japanese from Middlebury College and completed graduate studies in Japanese history at the University of Chicago.

Most Recent Posts

• Ghost Stories from the Asian Reading Room October 31st, 2024
• Now Online: Pacific Encounters in Nineteenth-Century Japan March 30th, 2024
• Intern Spotlight: Without Borders: Warren M. Tsuneishi’s World of Knowledge January 24th, 2024
• Yongle Encyclopedia Volumes Fully Digitized April 20th, 2023
• Bear Cat, Wah, or Fire Fox? Red Pandas in the Library of Congress September 16th, 2022
• Sakuma Tsutomu and the Memory of Submarine No. 6 at the Library of Congress April 21st, 2022
• Japan and the Olympics Before the 1964 Tokyo Games September 1st, 2021
• Now Online: Japanese Rare Book Digital Collection February 17th, 2021
• Now Online: Korean Rare Book Digital Collection December 16th, 2020