Trend in Japan

Many Japanese are senstive to trends, and we can see them in many fields.
In this year, we often talked about budget screening. Current administration waste the state budget, so they face to the serious financial problems. Then, they decided to check thier way of using their budget and abolish some useless project.
Many people were very interested in this policy and often talked about it in news paper, news program and the Internet. I think I can see it as a kind of trends.