2015: The Winning Words

Rice cookers and other appliances are popular picks for Chinese tourists on bakugai shopping binges. (© Jiji)

Triple-three sluggers Yanagita Yūki (left) and Yamada Tetsuto accept their season MVP awards at a November 25 ceremony. (© Jiji)

Yamada (left) and Yanagita accept the prize on behalf of the term toripuru surī.

Laox CEO Luo Yiwen at the awards ceremony.

The author and pacifist protestor Sawachi Hisae, who created the anti-Abe slogan, accepts the award for it.

Don't worry. Tonikaku Akarui Yasumura was, indeed, wearing his underwear at the ceremony.

Natsuno Takeshi, a member of the Olympic emblem selection committee, accepting the award for enburemu.

SEALDs leader Okuda Aki, holding plaque, and other members accept the prize for their group's name.

Leading Japanese drone researcher Nonami Kenzō steps up to accept the award for dorōn.

Tennis celebrity Matsuoka Shūzō accepts the award for his publication's title.

Selection committee member and mangaka Yaku Mitsuru gives his comments.

Representatives of the winning words for 2015 gather for a final group photo.