I noticed this earlier, but honestly, Kotaku gets so much of its news directly from Japanese blogs as it is! I've subscribed to several great Japanese gaming blogs (I love
オレ的) simply from checking out the cited sources of various articles. Besides, they're not affectionately nicknamed "Slowtaku" for nothing - it's often quite a while before they report on something from a Japanese blog, and the translation process takes even longer (often a day or two on Slashdot.jp) so getting the info straight from the source rather than through Kotaku's Japanese site is easily preferable to me.
That having been said, I'ma still subscribe to their RSS feed.