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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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Osaka convenience store asks customers to muffle their “buree-buree” sounds while in the toilet

Master Blaster
Mar 27, 2017
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Request met with mixed reaction from praising its frankness to pointing out the impossibility of it.

Internet, Japan
(bathrooms • convenience store • Daily Yamazaki • funny • Osaka • sound • toilet)

Dine on Kenyan cuisine in Tokyo at Masyuko’s Buffalo Cafe

Master Blaster
Mar 26, 2017

Mr. Sato follows a hot lead from a Maasai warrior for some elusive Kenyan food in Japan, and isn’t disappointed.

Africa, Japan
(food • Kenya • Masyuko's Buffalo Cafe • restaurants • Shinagawa • Tokyo)

One Piece team shows us how a Weekly Shonen Jump cover is crafted【Video】

Master Blaster
Mar 25, 2017

Possibly the first-ever look at how one of the most crowded magazine covers is designed.

Internet, Japan
(art • graphic design • layout • manga • One Piece • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Pac-Man rickshaw is back! This time to eat in Osaka’s Shinsekai district

Master Blaster
Mar 24, 2017

Back due to popular demand and this time in Osaka, Pac-Man will give a few lucky passengers a ride as it chases takoyaki.

Japan
(event • Osaka • pac-man • rickshaw • Shinsekai • takoyaki • Tsutenkaku • video games)

Kyoto police set up system to predict when and where crimes will happen

Master Blaster
Mar 23, 2017

New tool allows Kyoto police to be at the scene of the crime before the crime even occurs.

Japan
(Big data • crime • Kyoto • Minority Report • Predictive Crime Defense System • Psycho Pass)

The next evolution in pillows is here: a giant scrub brush

Master Blaster
Mar 22, 2017

You might think a scrub brush would be a terrible thing to rest your sleepy head on, but think again.

Japan
(health • pillow • scourer • scrub brush • sleep)

Hyogo man robs taxi driver, driver buys man dinner, man turns self in to police

Master Blaster
Mar 22, 2017

When threatened to hand over his cash, this driver gave some advice instead.

Japan
(crime • Himeji • Hyogo • robbery • taxi)

Man pops the question with 33-ton “meteorite”

Master Blaster
Mar 20, 2017

They say you should spend at least three months’ salary when selecting an engagement meteorite, but this guy seems to have gone overboard.

China
(funny • marriage • meteorite • Urumqi • video • wedding proposal)

Chiba police hunting for serial attacker who puts finger in teenage boys’ mouths

Master Blaster
Mar 12, 2017

Senior police official quoted as saying, “I have never heard of this behavior, but it’s sick.”

Japan
(Chiba • crime • finger • Inage Station • mouth)

Japanese baseball player sends message to boy who ruined his home run

Master Blaster
Mar 11, 2017

A single catch by a fan brings out the worst and best in Japanese baseball.

Japan
(baseball • home run • Phantom Home Run • Tetsuto Yamada • World Baseball Classic)

We cover our faces in pollen to try and trigger an allergic reaction【RocketScience】

Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2017

You might be asking yourself: “Why?” Which is probably something we should have done too.

Japan
(allergies • hay fever • hinoki • P.K. Sanjun • pollen • RocketScience • sugi)

Sompo Japan offers nation’s first online flaming insurance

Master Blaster
Mar 4, 2017

Sompo Japan’s groundbreaking policy covers doxxing, negative memes, and other forms of flaming, but trolls need not apply.

Internet, Japan
(business • enjo • flaming • Insurance • Sompo Japan)

Kanagawa man’s body found one month after death in a six-ton pile of erotic magazines

Master Blaster
Mar 3, 2017

Body discovered several days after man passed away.

Japan
(crazy • death • hikkikomori • hoarding • Kanagawa • lonely death • magazines)

America’s Got Talent winner Kenichi Ebina in charge or upcoming Captain Tsubasa stage show

Master Blaster
Mar 3, 2017

Bringing the over-the-top soccer moves of Captain Tsubasa to a live stage seems like a crazy idea, but it’s the kind of crazy Ebina has built a career on.