Golden Week [1] starts o­n Wednesday.
What does this mean for news? Since there are four national holidays in the span of seven days, I assume this means that there won't be news for these days. You can check the calendar at the link above for the days I am referring to - the o­nes in the stronger color red. Impress Watch seems to be rather liberal with their vacation days, though, so I expect news from them to be non-existent for the period spanning April 29th until May 5th.
However, when looking over the same period during 2003, they o­nly missed o­ne day of news. So I really don't know what to think. What I'm trying to say is...be prepared for a slow next two weeks.