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:
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Mr. Sato tracks down a rice omelet unlike any he had ever seen before at a small French cafe in Tokyo’s Koenji.
If you’re a fan of McDonald’s Japan, you might be sad to learn that your favorite item may be the staff’s worst nightmare.
Unlike most memorial services, these movie buffs are mourning the fact this movie was created.
Because atherosclerosis isn’t the only matter of the heart medical professionals should be concerned with.
Japan’s premier gourmet rapper would like to drop a little science on you about a whole new way to wash dishes.
Avery Chin and Sylvia Lim make the record books for their impressively quick quick-change act.
Because geisha and warriors are passé, we went to a photo shoot to look like figures of Hollywood’s golden age.
Approximately 20 minutes after an elderly woman leapt in front of an express train, a conductor threw himself from an elevated train track down the line.
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.
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