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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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When we painted a car in permanent marker many asked; “What if it rained?” So, we did you one better.
According to Yoshitada Fukuhara, anime may be the only thing left to save Japan’s economy.
Sure, we all know that deceit and sabotage are the fastest ways to a woman’s heart, but this was over the line.
Thanks in part to paying employees more, CEO Sarah Cassanova has put the chain back on top like never before.
This long-running children’s series may not be doing it on purpose, but is making significant strides in LGBT acceptance in Japan.
But are people willing to undo the long-running social custom of only standing on one side of an escalator?
And should probably brace themselves for a slew of complaints from angry stag beetle and ant farm owners.
A large majority of people living in Osaka said to eat their iconic food takoyaki less than a dozen times a year.
It’s soon to be official, Kobe will win Christmas this year, and with it, all of Santa’s gold.
Despite the elegant appearance, Sushi Cake promises to be as tasty as any other cake made from raw tuna and vinegared rice.
While Anpanman was the undisputed hero of his own anime, Hiromi Tsuru’s superbly voiced Dokin-chan was the rest of us.
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