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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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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7-Eleven Japan’s ramen-cooking robot whipped us up a bowl of noodles【Taste test】
Daiso has giant new branch in middle of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood (and another beneath it)
Here’s how you can knit yourself a bowl of ramen【Video】
Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods, drinkware and candles for the 2025 holiday season
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