Welcome to the Return to the Valley On-Line Teacher's Guide
This guide is a supplement to the material presented in the Return to the Valley television documentary. It expands upon the topics introduced in the program and provides resources for both educators and students doing research about Japanese Americans during World War II. This material includes the forced evacuation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps during this time, and their resettlement experiences upon their return back to western coastal regions at the war's end. The Return to the Valley on-line teacher's guide is by no means a complete curriculum of the complex history of Japanese Americans in the United States. The eleven sections of this guide barely scratch the surface of the extensive history and research about Japanese Americans. Further resources are included at the end of each section. We are fortunate to include the many photographs that were taken by the U.S. War Relocation Authority. It should be noted that the majority of the information in the captions that accompany the photographs in this guide, unless from personal collections, are based on the original annotations that accompanied the photographs are from the U.S. War Relocation Authority and contained within the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement collection at the Bancroft Library, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

This guide has been specifically created for the fifth through twelfth grades, although educators and students of all levels will find the material useful. We hope that the text and photos will encourage others to learn more about this history and the histories of their own relatives, friends, and families.

About the Material:

The resources for this guide were selected by educators for classroom and research use. We have included both books for younger readers as well as older students and adults. Most of the videos cited can be used for general audience. However, several may contain complex topics and powerful images that may not be appropriate for elementary school aged children.

There are numerous resources for many of the topics included in this guide. These include books, videos, DVDs, and Internet websites. In these cases, we have included a cross section of available materials. For other topics, resource material was limited, and we have included what was available on the subject area.

Materials included in this teacher's guide is what was published at the time this website went live. KTEH is aware that Japanese American history reflects a growing body of research and new materials are being created every day.

Here are some guidelines for the use of this material:

• All articles and text have been federally copyrighted by KTEH Silicon Valley Public Television. The authors of the articles and photo archives have been credited for their contribution to this teacher's guide.


• Teachers, students, and researchers have KTEH's permission to print the teacher guide at their site for classroom use at no cost.


• Users may not alter the text or photos in any manner without written permission from KTEH.


• All passages that are quoted in reports or lectures must be credited to:

Return to the Valley On-Line Teacher's Guide
Copyright 2004, KTEH, San Jose, California

KTEH thanks the following contributors for their work in research and writing the thematic essays for this Teacher's Guide:

Wendy Ng, San Jose State University
Stephen Fugita, Santa Clara University
Tom Izu, DeAnza College
Larry Oda, President Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League
Tim Thomas, Monterey Maritime Museum
Alexander Yamato, PhD. Asian American Studies, San Jose State University
Mike Honda, Congressman US House of Representatives, San Jose

Photo Archives:

Japanese American War Relocation Authority Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California
National Archives and Records Administration
Personal collection of Mike Honda