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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Legendary artist EYE to hold his largest mass-percussion event ever in Tokyo with crowdfunding underway

Floodway in Tokyo to be flooded with soundwaves.

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Mr. Sato gets 1,000 yen in food and drink from two stores for a “double senbero”【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】

Featuring appearances by Toilet God, Cutieboy QT, and more!

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Osaka zookeeper caught stealing chimpanzees’ food

Victims claim to have seen no evil, heard no evil, nor spoken no evil.

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Kyoto company developing autofocus glasses for sufferers of presbyopia and other conditions

Let your glasses focus your eyes so you can focus on the important things in life.

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The last of the Mohican-hairstyle-wearing people still lining up for iPhones

We stumble upon Butch, possibly the last remaining iPhone liner-upper in the wild, and see what makes him tick.

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Material that cools down by glowing developed by researchers in Chiba and Osaka

Cool!

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Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel Prize for learning we can kind of breathe in through our butts

Your ass may one day save your ass.

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Japanese clothing companies adopt fifth “Intense Heat” season because summer is too long

There are five seasons in Japan.

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Turn your cat into a tasteful nude painting with this decorative scratching post

“Draw me like one of your French humans.”

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Japan’s Nikka Whiskey recommends serving with a frozen sweet-bean bar inside [Taste test]

Just because you can…

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Toothpaste commercial pulled for sounding like the Japanese missile alert system

It’s the end of gingivitis as we know it, and I feel fine.

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Posthumous divorce on the rise in Japan as a way to distance oneself from in-laws

Tell your late spouse’s family how you really feel. Tell them with a divorce.

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Chiitan launches official cryptocurrency Chiitan☆Coin, understands if you don’t want to buy it

This otter fairy only put it out there for those into that kind of thing.

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Defying gravity and common sense with the lowest-rated tensegrity table on Amazon Japan

This table defies a lot of things, but gravity isn’t one of them.

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Yoshinoya expanding into ostrich bowls for more sustainable meat and cosmetics【Taste test】

Beef bowl chain introduces their “fourth meat.”

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Visiting a hot spring complex made out of a repurposed elementary school in Osaka

It’s the best place to learn a thing or two about hot springs.

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Gyoza no Ohsho president’s murder trial mulling not letting average citizens become judges

Yes, that’s a thing they do in Japan.

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Survey finds Japan to be least god-fearing nation in the world and it’s not even close

Jesus is just… all right with Japan.

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Luigi set to star in Family Mart’s latest collab event with exclusive sandwiches and blankets

Player 2 ready.

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Welcome to Hell…Hell’s Dandan Noodles Tenryu in Kanagawa

We descend into Dandan’s inferno.

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