One of the things the Japanese media love to discuss is kazoku no hōkai (家族の崩壊, collapse of the family) — an evergreen topic that's been around since the late 1960s, a time when most urban Japanese families could first afford a television. Academics and tarento (TV personality) commentators would come on the air and warn that Japan's sacrosanct family life would fall into ruins from excessive Westernization (and too much TV). No one paid attention, of course, they were too busy fueling the rapid-growth economy, or being mesmerized by Godzilla and Yomiuri Giants' baseball games.