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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Many complain that Brassiere Day has become too commercial, so our team straps in to find the true spirit of the season.
Stupid videos continue to flood the Internet in Japan, while one company is looking to send a message.
Chiitan’s management claim a city rep in charge of happiness told them “permission wasn’t needed.”
The Japanese comedian shows Spain what he’s got and narrowly avoids showing them what he’s got down there.
Cyclist threw his bike at a car and repeatedly punched its driver after a horn was beeped.
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