Those who believe young people don't have proper peer models should check out TBS's "Sekai Ururun Taizai (World Sojourn)," which, every Sunday at 10 p.m., features a young celebrity traveling to a distant corner of the globe and living with a local family while learning a local skill or craft.
In extreme cases, the sojourners stay with isolated tribes in places such as New Guinea or the Amazon and hunt and fish alongside their hosts. In most cases, however, the guests want to learn something specific, such as how to play flamenco guitar in Spain, or how to make a frock coat in Britain. In addition to learning a skill, the traveler becomes immersed in the day-to-day life of the place where he or she is staying, and invariably becomes almost like a member of the host family.
Tonight, actress Amari Matsumoto goes to the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where she lives with a fisherman's family and learns how to cook eel the Dalmatian way. Before departing, Matsumoto spent one week apprenticing at a Japanese unagi restaurant in Tokyo, learning how to gut and prepare eel the Japanese way.