Now that Tokyo has been given the honor of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, the city, as well as all of Japan, will spend the next seven years "internationalizing" (kokusai-ka), a term that becomes fashionable again every few years when something like this happens. Theoretically a circumscribed society can internationalize only once, and the consensus is that it happened to Japan in the 1980s after the economy had become strong enough to compel companies and individuals to go overseas. In media terms it was the era that generated TV travel shows such as TV Asahi's now-defunct "Naruhodo the World" and TBS's still-running "Sekai Fushigi Hakken," which introduced viewers to exotic locales. These programs were sometimes derided for presenting other cultures in overly simplistic terms through a narrow set of values.