Master Blaster

Writer / Translator

Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Canada’s Steven Le Blanc and Japan’s Masami M, a pair who in addition to writing work are in English education and created the StudyNow app for Japanese students of English.

Together they have written somewhere around 1,500 articles for RocketNews24 covering such diverse topics as Chinese men selling sanitary napkins to each other and a Japanese guy dragging an ear of corn around the Tokyo train system. A few of these were actually good, but don’t take our word for it! Here’s what our beloved readers had to say:

“One isn't always in the mood for bold tastes. But when I'm in the mood for bold flavor I turn to you.”
“Stupid article. Who cares what the Japanese think it's cool. You don't call a monkey, "gorilla".”
“You know, this is about the most cogent explanation of how a turbocharger works that I have ever seen in the non-motorsports world.”
“Thanks for the article peter!”
“It's people like you who make exploitation possible.”
“It looks yummy and the story was great. Thank you for the smile.”

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Makers of Dassai to brew sake in space and sell 100 milliliters for 100 million yen

To boldly brew where no one has brewed before…

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Our Japanese writers dress up as Winter Shogun

What better way to wait out the cold than with some interpretive cosplay?

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Japanese company develops classy heavy metal band frames for glasses

It’s like a T-shirt for your face.

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Toyota gets second Guinness World Record for basketball playing humanoid robot

Yeah, but his D is weak if you ask me.

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DJ Police called in to help prevent bear attacks in northern Japan

Last night a DJ saved my life… from a bear.

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Sagami Railway and Adobe hope AI can help stop Japanese train photographers from being jerks

Finally, a use of AI we can all get behind.

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Furikake rice seasoning sales are soaring, which is bad news for Japan as a whole

Bad news for everyone over 10 in Japan at least.

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Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

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Man with snake face tattoo arrested for assault, neighbors shocked he would do such a thing【Vid】

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover… unless a snake is tattooed on it.

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Black Thunder has a luxurious cousin few have ever heard of【Taste test】

Delux Milk Chocolate has stood in Black Thunder’s shadow for 30 years.

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Nara man arrested for burying mother in his cemetery plot by himself

You don’t have to abandon a body to legally abandon it.

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Sazae-san breaks own Guinness World Records again for 55 years on television

Star voice actor is 85 going on 25.

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Domino’s Japan has all-you-can-eat pizza isn’t an Internet rumor, but it is hard to find

It takes a lot of luck and a little hunger to partake in this delicious deal.

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Made In Japan Fender Limited Edition Hello Kitty Stratocaster now on sale in Japan

Shredding Sanrio style.

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Taking Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated light-up nunchucks out for a spin

Don’t just buy any illuminated weapons. Do the research first.

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A deep-fried sushi senbero awaits from Super Value【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】

A breakthrough in the senbero arts has been made.

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Japanese Prime Minister once criticized deploying military to fight Godzilla

There are tricky legal hurdles when fighting kaiju.

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We try carving a Halloween pumpkin… to eat【SoraKitchen】

It’s the great pumpkin, P.K. Sanjun!

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Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for “photos showing who you are as a person”

Anything’s OK, just nothing too natural, or unnatural, or unflattering, or revealing, or stodgy… but, you know, anything is OK.

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New game on Nintendo Switch requires players to act drunk for superpowers

Be the hero you deserve, but not the hero you need right now.

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