A quick, compact baseball swing popularized by Japanese big leaguers such as Ichiro Suzuki, So Taguchi, Akinori Iwamura, amongst others.
Most effective with a left handed batting style, the jap-slap has become popular with Hispanic and American Major Leaguers such as Juan Pierre and Brett Gardner.
Akinori just put the ball in play, jap-slap it if you have to.
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