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Master Blaster
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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:
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Join Takkyu Genin Pinpon as he takes us on a whirlwind ride of table tennis themed comedic bits that never have a dull moment.
Japan may have forgiven the rip-off Disney star, but they have not forgotten what he did 80 years ago on that blood soaked Pacific island beach.
Call me old fashioned but I remember when mascots were meant to be cute, not demons spawned by human weakness or yam ninjas.
Love watching cats play with robotic vacuum cleaners? Then, how about 48 continuous hours of it live?
Despite being the first person in Japan to purchase the latest iPhone on more than one occasion, Mr. Sato was shunned by his phone company this time around.
Generally mystery meat is something to be avoided, unless you’re talking about Cup Noodle brand mystery meat.
Whenever there’s a slow news day at the office, we do what any journalist would and attempt to toy with the forces of nature.
We finally get a chance to test this portable laundromat and see just how clean it can make your clothes.
That wily shrunken PI always gets to the bottom of things, even while licensing his brand to a line of curry.
These days its hard to describe any music as “unique” but Aragehonji certainly fit that bill.
Yes, you, too, might become a double-medalist in the Olympics, but only if you eat your instant curry!
Power harassment is a relatively newly defined but widespread form of workplace harassment in Japan where people abuse their rank by demeaning their subordinates. But why do people do it?
A handful of golf courses in Fukuoka Prefecture have refused to add a certain checkbox to their applications for fear of their lives.
Do you dread the time the mic gets passed your way during Karaoke functions? We have the answer.
Brush up on your flying chariot versus incense chariot tactics with this close-quarters version of the complex Japanese relative of chess.
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As usual, when Mr. Sato thinks he has a good idea, we strongly recommend you don’t try it at home.
What was meant to be a brief but shameful public apology by the parent of a rape suspect turned into a lengthy feeding frenzy by the media.
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