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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Japanese hair salons going bankrupt in record numbers

Salons are dying in more ways than one.

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Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp

Pray to get ahead or to keep your head.

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War in Iran threatening Japan’s pudding production

If you don’t end the war, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t end the war?!

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This Mother’s Day, why not give the gift of a single, really expensive, never-picked mango?

Get your mother the mother of all mangoes.

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Japanese film studio Toei announces first three video games from newly created Toei Games

Toei or not Toei? That is the question.

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Buddhist priest arrested for using health insurance card he found on the street

Priest enlightened himself of the burdens incurred when paying for insurance.

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Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!

You don’t look a day over 30 lives.

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Burger King offers every fast food franchisee in Japan 40M yen to jump ship and join them

McWhoNow? I’ll take the 40 mil.

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Shinkansen operator apologizes for three-minute delay because conductor was napping

The apology may have taken longer than the delay.

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Mr. Sato shares his own secret Ministop hack to help save the ailing convenience store

Hopefully, this is just a mini stop on Ministop’s road to success.

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61-year-old Japanese fisherman falls off boat and defies odds to swim to safety

Captain Crunch Time.

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Kinotake Mother AI developed to study Japan’s divide between chocolate cookie snacks

AI claims it can tell which you like just by looking at you.

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Yoshinoya invites you to give the gift of beef bowls this Mother’s Day

I mean, if I were a mother, I’d appreciate it.

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Famous koi ponds overwhelmed with tourists throwing thousands of coins in them

Koi and coins don’t mix.

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Japan named most sleep-deprived country for fourth year in a row, according to survey

Look, I’m tired. Just think up your own lede for this, OK?

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Licca-chan dolls released in North America for first time in nearly 60 years

Huge in Japan but rarely seen outside of it.

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The Almost All Lettuce Burger from Dom Dom Burger really lives up to its name

Dom Dom turns over a new leaf.

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Japanese masturbatory aid and insect repellent companies collab on a new product

A stroke of genius?

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Japanese politicians working to promote plastic model culture as a cultural asset

Govpla?

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Japan’s ministry of economy reminds us to “use sound judgment” before buying toilet paper

Just take a beat and really think about it calmly.

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