Recently I have discovered that a great way to keep up to date on what is going on in Japan, is to follow Japanese people on Twitter - and it is great for practicing your reading of Japanese! If you are interested in the web industry in Japan, you might like this blog post, which lists 30 Japanese people that are involved in the tech/web industry.
"30 Japanese geeks you should follow on Twitter".
http://hemiolia.com/blog/200902/000150
If you would like to follow me, my Twitter account is:
http://twitter.com/csautot