Distance Between Our Names

A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II.

In 1872, a new Japanese government's first diplomatic delegation to the United States was greeted with rapturous welcome in San Francisco. For over ten days of lavish parties, the city's elite admired the emissaries' silk robes and noble bearing and began forging what they expected would be a special relationsh