According to foreign press reports, radioactive cesium of 15,000Bq per kg was detected in the soil of a village 40 km away from the above-said power plant.

Cesium more than 44 times the allowable level was again detected on spinach cultivated in the area of that village.

The number of species of vegetables contaminated with radiation beyond the legal level increased to 26 as now.

The results of an analysis of a sample of seawater 113 to 160 m under water off a Pacific coastal area led to the detection of iodine-131 of 4.8 Bq per litre and cesium-137 of 11.4 Bq.

Radioactive iodine was detected on crops including spinach cultivated in Beijing, Tianjin and Hunan Province of China.

The situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is deteriorating.

Reactor No. 1 of the power plant from which radioactive substance is ceaselessly leaking is in the danger of explosion, raising a problem.

The Japanese Tokyo Shimbun said on April 7 that the seabed reference point above the epicenter about 130 km under water off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture, which caused the recent massive quake moved about 24 m east-southeast and rose 3 m, adding that the earth's crust change of the seabed surpassing 20 m has not been confirmed so far internally and externally.

According to the data released by the Japan National Police Agency, the death toll caused by the quake and the ensuing tsunami increased to 12,731 as of 10 a.m. on Friday.