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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It looks like some graphic designer was aiming for the gold medal in passive-aggressiveness.
Newest video showing the destruction of various American weaponry suggests North Korea may be in possession of functional 3-D modeling software.
Meet Butch, an old friend of Mr. Sato’s who is carrying the torch in the noble pursuit of iPhone launch notoriety.
They say VR is a powerful tool, but is it enough to make our grizzled reporter swoon like a blushing bride?
With Japan’s Queen of Pop set to end her career, many are left wondering who the front-runner for the opening ceremonies is now.
The missiles may not be physically crashing into Japan, but their effect is hitting television stations square in the wallet.
Several vendors are applying a “sell first, ask questions later” approach to business strategy.
Two-dimensional fighting game Fight of Gods offends me deeply, but I wonder how religious people feel about it.
This restaurant-machine fusion is one small step for vending, one giant leap for vending-machine-kind.
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More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
French Fries Bread in Tokyo’s Shibuya becomes a hit on social media
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Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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