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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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Enlightening clips show just how hard it is to do the simplest things when you’re a mascot.
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In order to confront the intimidating and multi-talented Rena “Non” Nonen, our interviewer summons a god of rock.
Japan’s version of the fast food giant has surpassed an already optimistic forecast and landed in a Big Mac truck load of cash.
Meg decides to get back to basics by using the natural cooling power of snow to create a delicious matcha dessert.
After its crowdfunding target is smashed, writing begins on the story of how Japan stifled its own IT development in the name of combating file-sharing.
You might have to stare at it a while to see why, but the signature ought to be a big give-away.
Twitter user finds way to make winter more enjoyable… or possibly less enjoyable depending on who you are.
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