Ishii Yuichi is the founder of Family Romance, a Japanese company that hires actors to pose as people's fake wedding dates, fake boyfriends, and more.

Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business ...

The Atlantic recently published an article about a new “rent-a-friend” business in Japan. The business gives you an opportunity to hire an actor to stand in as a your boyfriend or girlfriend, or even ...

Ishii Yuichi: Yes, at this moment I am only myself. Morin: What was your very first role? Yuichi: I had a single-mother friend, and she had a son.

That's what Ishii Yuichi, the 36-year-old founder of a Japanese company called Family Romance, told The Atlantic in an interview published Tuesday.Yuichi was speaking about the 12-year-old ...

Started in 2009, Japanese company Family Romance hires actors to pose as people's fake spouses, family members, coworkers, and more. The company was founded by Ishii Yuichi, who has since hired ...

Yuichi Ishii (right) pretends to be the returned absent father of 12-year-old Mahiro in Werner ... More Herzog's 'Family Romance, LLC.' Lena Herzog.

Ishii Yuichi is the real-life proprietor of the Japanese company that gives this new Werner Herzog movie its title. Yuichi and his handful of associates are impersonators of whomever their clients ...

Ishii Yuichi, the CEO of one such company called Family Romance, sat down with The Atlantic to discuss the services his company offers and the roles he’s personally played for clients over the ...

Werner Herzog’s documentary explores Japan’s rent-a-family industry. And fireworks displays will be broadcast from New York and Washington. By Lauren Messman Ishii Yuichi and Mahiro Tanimoto ...

Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business involves ...

Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business ...