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Gold medalist Noah Lyles of the U.S. celebrates after the men's 200m final at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest on Aug. 25.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Dec 12, 2023
Lyles and Kipyegon named track athletes of the year
Lyles was recognized for the three gold medals he won at the world championships in Budapest.
Noah Lyles of the United States celebrates after winning the men's 200m final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Friday.
BASKETBALL
Aug 29, 2023
Sprint king Lyles draws NBA players' ire over 'world champion' claims
Lyles said he is offended when teams declare themselves "world champions" for winning an NBA crown.
Noah Lyles of the U.S. celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the Men's 4x100m final at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest on Saturday.
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Aug 28, 2023
Noah Lyles takes tentative steps into Usain Bolt's big shoes
The question now is whether Lyles will be able to continue his fine form into next year's Paris Olympics.
Noah Lyles celebrates after the U.S. won the men's 4x100 meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Aug 27, 2023
Gold rush for Noah Lyles and Faith Kipyegon at world championships
On an enthralling night's action Armand "Mondo" Duplantis and Sha'Carri Richardson also rubberstamped their authority in their events.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles (right) beats the field to the finish line to win the 100-meter final at the world championships in Budapest on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Aug 21, 2023
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles eager to pick up baton Usain Bolt left behind
Noah Lyles is ready to take aim at Usain Bolt's 200-meter world record after winning the 100 at the word championships.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 22, 2022
Noah Lyles defends 200-meter title at world championships
Lyles ran the fourth-fastest 200 ever — only Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake have run faster.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021
What to watch on Day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics
An East Asian rivalry is set to be renewed on the diamond and skateboarding returns to the schedule a little over a week after Japan claimed the sport's first two gold medals.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
May 15, 2021
Athletes willing and eager to participate in Tokyo Olympics
Athletes have apparently not been deterred by the conditions they will likely compete under in Tokyo.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2021
Noah Lyles would rather run in empty stadium than have fans stay silent at Tokyo Games
'No chanting, no cheering — that kind of sucks,' said Lyles, when learning of the protocols during a video conference ahead of Saturday's meet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 17, 2020
‘The Keeper of the Dragonflies’: The essence of cross-cultural relationships, warts and all
Thomas Noah Wood is the pseudonym for the American writer Thomas Dillon, whose name may be familiar to readers of The Japan Times. Dillon wrote about daily life in Japan through the lens of international marriage in “When East Marries West,” a column which ran from 1998 to 2015. Unlike the good-natured humor of his columns, these quirky short stories in “The Keeper of the Dragonflies” veer toward black comedy, although Dillon’s trademark knack for distilling the essence of cross-cultural relationships, romantic or otherwise, is still apparent.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 24, 2018
Mellow Habanero: Award-winning hot sauce from an unlikely corner of Japan
In 2002, a fateful encounter with habaneroson the Okinawa island of Ishigaki first sparked Taku Kondo's interest in the pepper. Now, Kondo cultivates 1,800 habanero plants to make his award-winning range of organic hot sauces, which are sold under the Mellow Habanero label.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Feb 1, 2017
France plays down Nishikori's Davis Cup no-show
France captain Yannick Noah has played down the absence of Japan's world No. 5 Kei Nishikori and called for total focus from his players ahead of their Davis Cup World Group first-round tie starting Friday.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Dec 8, 2016
Becker says Djokovic needs to work harder to be No. 1 again
Novak Djokovic lost his momentum in the second half of last season and was toppled as the world No. 1 by Andy Murray because his work rate dropped, the Serbian's former coach Boris Becker said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 25, 2016
Bulls hope to contend despite huge roster overhaul
The big news of the NBA summer was Kevin Durant leaving Oklahoma City for Golden State, thus, in theory, improving a team that set a record for the most wins in the history of the league.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 21, 2016
'Stranger Things' happened in the 1980s
The streaming wars continue, and one advantage Netflix has over its rivals is that it releases its original content in Japan without much annoying time lag. That's true of their new paranormal series "Stranger Things," which came out in the dog days of summer but is still building buzz.
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CULTURE / Film
Jul 20, 2016
'While We're Young': Generation X, meet the millennials
Noah Baumbach ("Frances Ha," "Greenberg") examines the concept of youth in "While We're Young" with a kind of clinical detachment. There's no glorifying or romanticizing, and he certainly doesn't seem too enamored by today's Bright Young Things.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 26, 2016
Thibodeau could make Timberwolves genuine contenders
One of my favorite movies, and not just because I live in Chicago — but if you want to see the best city location shots, that's the movie — is the John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd 1980s farce, "The Blues Brothers." It's a send-up of a Saturday Night Live TV show bit in which the comics actually became blues singers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 19, 2015
Noah takes inspiration from Hokkaido on 'Sivutie'
The way Ayuko Kurasaki, who creates music as Noah, describes her childhood home of Chitose in Hokkaido is so lovely that I'm surprised it isn't being used in tourism ads.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 18, 2015
Predestination: 'trippy tale of transgender time travel'
A guy walks into a bar . . . no, seriously, that is the premise for the new sci-fi film "Predestination," a rather faithful adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's 1960 short story "All You Zombies."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2014
Frances Ha
My mom used to say the trouble with being in your 20's is not realizing how ridiculous you're usually behaving. My take on it is that everyone should have periods of ridiculousness as often as possible, or we end up becoming bitter and shriveled in our old age.

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Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores