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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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In what other country would someone think it was a good idea to hold a national ranking of bus company mascots?
Smelly attempt at terrorism only seems to have galvanized the need for women-exclusive sections on trains.
Smokers and even non-smokers are up in arms over a suggested by-law that many claim “goes too far.”
Bears say only we can prevent forest fires, but they’ll help out when preventing robberies.
Japan’s copyright enforcers ask: how many words must a man write down, before he can be shaken down?
When the suits at Nissin said, “You can’t put that much wasabi and mayo in your noodles,” UFO replied, “like hell we can’t!”
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