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 It's the third Friday of the month and on Radio M that means a visit from Chicago Reader music writer Peter Margasak.

Setsubun welcomes Spring this Saturday with bean-throwing and mochi-catching, if you survive the crowds.

It was a surprisingly excitable men's gymnastics final all-around. But style remained, first and foremost, the most interesting part of the sport.

A year ago, people in the Midwest were taking stock of the damage that the massive earthquake and tsunami had done to Japan.

This Sunday will mark the one year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.  While the country continues the physical clean up in many areas outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, it’s the psychological toll that may have the most lasting effects on Japanese society.  People throughout

It's been about a year since a devastating tsunami -- and an ensuing nuclear disaster -- hit Japan.

WBEZ’s food blogger Louisa Chu is just back from a trip to Japan’s east coast, the area hit by a devastating tsunami and nuclear disaster nearly a year ago. She tells Worldview how the area’s restaurants and food industry are recovering.