Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

INSANE: Hikari | Vintage Vibes

Choosing a baby girl name for 2026? These beautiful Asian names tell a story of their own

Anticipating a baby girl in 2026? Parents can find a wealth of beautiful Asian names to consider. Japanese names often highlight elements of nature, such as flowers and light, providing poetic options. Meanwhile, Indian and Sanskrit names convey ideals of beauty, wisdom, and prosperity. Names from Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and…

The Economic Times

Hikari (光) Is the Japanese Concept of 'Living With Light' — Here's How I Bring It Into Homes as an Interior Designer

Seeking out natural light within your home will make each space feel so much more alive

Livingetc

How to Get Invertion in Jujutsu Zero

Inverted Spear of Heaven has an extra move that you can obtain by completing a small questline. While that questline is simple enough, you will need to

Pro Game Guides

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser’s treacly Japan film doesn’t want to ask difficult questions

3/5 The Oscar-winning star of ‘The Whale’ offers up his emotive blue eyes rimmed with tears, but they can only carry this empathetic tale so far

The Independent UK

Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role-play drama

Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services in director Hikari’s silly and saccharine film

The Guardian - UK

The Rental Family Ending Is Going To Stick With Me For A Long Time, And I Had To Ask Brendan Fraser And Co. About It

What a powerful moment!

Cinemablend

'Rental Family' spotlights real-life Japanese businesses that offer fill-in relatives, friends

“Rental Family,” a moving drama from Searchlight Pictures starring Brendan Fraser, is sure to spark interest in Japan’s real-life industry

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Critics Have Seen Rental Family, And They Say Brendan Fraser Has ‘A Direct Line To Our Souls’ In New Dramedy

The Brenaissance continues!

Cinemablend

Brendan Fraser's new horizons include 'Rental Family' and rental hedgehogs

“Rental Family” is Brendan Fraser’s first leading role since winning the best actor Oscar for “The Whale.”

The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser learnt Japanese for Rental Family

Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser took classes to learn Japanese for his new movie Rental Family which was filmed in Tokyo.

BANG Premier

Family Rental at LFF review: Brendan Fraser radiates charm as a rent-a-dad in Japan

3/5 Hikari’s gentle tale of unlikely connection raises fascinating topics but shies away from going deeper

Evening Standard

Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire

The Oscar-winning star of The Whale makes another awards play with a beautifully shot yet emotionally inert comedy drama

The Guardian - US

'My Boss Raped Me': Japanese Prosecutor's Fight For Justice

Very few women in Japan speak out about rape, and Hikari, too, kept quiet for years about her alleged assault by her boss, Osaka's former chief prosecutor.

International Business Times

“I Just Root For Him So Much”: Trailer For New Brendan Fraser Film Has Fans Emotional

"This honestly looks amazing."

Bored Panda

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WhatToWatch

Rental Family: release date, trailer, cast, plot and everything we know about the Brendan Fraser movie

Fraser stars in this dramedy based around the real rental family service available in Japan. Here’s everything you need to know about the movie.

GamesRadar

I spent 80 hours making the most overpowered JRPG party I've ever had, and then a secret boss kicked my ass for 3 days

Now Playing | Octopath Traveler 2's real final boss, Galdera, is not messing around

Laptop

Octopath Traveler 2 review: A new age of RPG

Octopath Traveler 2 is ringing in a new series of role playing games that has potential to be as huge as the giants that came before.

The Guardian - UK

Kenzaburō Ōe obituary

Nobel prize-winning writer whose novels linked the personal and political in exploring fatherhood and the legacy of war in Japan

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

TechRadar

For Final Fantasy 16 to succeed, it'll need to do what other RPGs often don't

The flaws of its peers show Final Fantasy 16’s developers exactly what not to do.

Evening Standard

Five facts about Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel-prize winning Japanese writer who died this month

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

Bangkok Post

Kenzaburo Oe: novelist who won Nobel with 'poetic force'

TOKYO - Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

Inverse

'Octopath Traveler 2': Best Starting Character and Order to Pick Your Party

Here is the best route to collect the eight varied protagonists in the expansive world of 'Octopath Traveler II'

Inverse

'Octopath Traveler 2' release date, trailers, story, and gameplay details

'Octopath Traveler 2' is the latest in Square Enix's line of HD-2D games. Here's everything you need to know about the JRPG sequel.

The Guardian - UK

‘I feel very at home’: the UK schools keeping children in touch with their global roots

Emilia studies Polish culture and food. For Jayden, it’s maths and African history. Photographer Craig Easton captures the weekend schools where youngsters can celebrate their family heritage

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.