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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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Mr. Sato takes the plunge and follows the promise of a super-cheap haircut into the unknown.
You don’t have to be a baseball fan to be a fan of arguably Japan’s greatest export to the sport.
There is a limited chance to try out Kurazushi’s latest transmogrification of vinegared rice.
A simple act of kindness during a hard rain ultimately changed the life of one young girl.
Men told to move to the back of the shopping complex rather than use a perfectly good toilet inside the restaurant.
The modern Japanese art of fake food samples has given birth to this stand which beautifully merges the heights of both elegance and kitsch.
Escape from an Urban Legend looks to perfect the intriguing combination of scare houses and escape games.
A former best-selling variation of sushi has returned, but it might be difficult to catch.
Azuki Bar Day is celebrated on 1 July and the makers of the tasty frozen snack sure know how to celebrate!
That’s “top” as in a “spinning top” not like “top class,” but then again, he probably is… Ah, just watch the darn video.
Let’s take this rare sighting of an S-Class bakkura to learn a little about what being a bakkura is all about.
Common sense might lead you to believe that “emoji” is simply a variation of “emoticon,” but Japanese common sense tells a whole different story.
The combined talents and bravery of three individuals narrowly prevented a traffic disaster from getting out of hand.
Office employee poses question to the Internet: Is it wrong to drink a non-alcoholic beer during a break?
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