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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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?
If you were to express the phrase “Why the heck not?” in the form of food, this might be it.
An easy trick rooted in Japanese tradition claims to be able to curb embarrassing pit stains and the social ills they cause.
Gyoza No Ohsho franchise’s bottomless generosity runs on the simple principle that young people need to eat.
Witness history in the making as the first ever musical album composed by a news-oriented website (we assume) hits iTunes and Amazon this July!
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[Deleted] Article written for April Fool’s Day 2018
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