The top buzzwords in Japan in 2015, as chosen through the annual U-Can Shingo Ryukogo Taisho (U-Can New Words and Buzzwords Awards), were co-winners bakugai and toripuru suri.
The former refers to extreme shopping sprees carried out by Chinese tourists. The latter, Triple 3, to a baseball player finishing a season with at least a .300 average, 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases, which has happened only 11 times. Triple 3 was launched into the national lexicon that year by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks¡¯ Yuki Yanagita and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows¡¯ Tetsuto Yamada, who both achieved the feat.
They¡¯re both still filling up boxscores in 2018. But while Yamada is having a good start, we may need a new buzzword for what Yanagita is doing.
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