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Heroic Japanese workers yesterday plugged a 12-inch crack leaking highly toxic water into sea from a concrete pit at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, but were confronted with a new problem of gas build-up at one of the six reactors which may cause another hydrogen blast.

The Japanese parliament on Friday passed a bill to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate, the first emperor to do so in 200 years