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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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French chief enjoys business opportunities in China

STORY: French chief enjoys business opportunities in China SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 26, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 28, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:14 LOCATION: XIAMEN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Greg Louraichi 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef STORYLINE: Greg Louraichi, a chef from Bordeaux in France, moved to China in 2002. In 2011, he opened a French restaurant in China's coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian Province. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef "I want to bring my cuisine to the table. And I'd like to put my passion on what we are doing. So every recipe I created in the restaurant is a little bit different. I would say Western culture can match with the Chinese culture. (I'm) using a lot of local products to create my own dish in a French way. We try to give a chance to people to come to visit us and to understand a little bit of French culture." Over the years, Louraichi has witnessed significant changes in C

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Report on U.S. base relocation

NAHA, Japan - An employee of the Okinawa prefectural government checks the content of the environmental impact assessment report on the relocation of a U.S. Marine base within the prefecture at the government office in Naha on Jan. 5, 2012. Delivering the report to the prefectural government drew public attention late 2011 after protesters blocked the report's submission and the Defense Ministry managed to get it through by delivering it in the predawn hours of Dec. 28 when protesters were scarce.

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'Amachan' event in Yokohama for Iwate's reconstruction

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Iwate Prefecture and Yokohama City hold an event in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014, to support the reconstruction of Iwate Prefecture damaged by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. Two staff members wear costumes popularized in a recent Japanese TV drama series ''Amachan,'' a story about the ama (female divers) in Iwate Prefecture.

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Shioyazaki Lighthouse in Fukushima Pref. to reopen

IWAKI, Japan - Work to restore a pathway to the Shioyazaki Lighthouse in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, continues on Jan. 28, 2014, ahead of the planned reopening of the facility to the general public on Feb. 22. The scenic lighthouse, which was made famous by director Keisuke Kinoshita's film about a lighthouse keeper "Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki" (The Lighthouse), sustained major damage in the March 2011 earthquake disaster.

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Volunteers with experience abroad help quake victims

MORIOKA, Japan - Makoto Yanagisawa speaks about his volunteer disaster relief activities for victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Jan. 28, 2013 in Tono, Iwate Prefecture. He returned to Japan to help the victims recover from the disaster, giving up on his stem cell research in the United States.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - Construction is under way for a facility to remove around 60 types of nuclides from water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 28, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed the plant to reporters ahead of the second anniversary of a nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - Photo shows the base of a crane facility (R) under construction at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that will be used to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building (L) in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 28, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed the plant to reporters ahead of the second anniversary of a nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - Workers build a crane facility at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that will be used to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 28, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed the plant to reporters ahead of the second anniversary of a nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo)

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Nikkei hits 22-month high

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the closing level of Japan's Nikkei stock index on the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2013. It ended the day's session at 10,688.11, up 292.93 points from the previous session on Dec. 28 and its highest close since March 4, 2011. The U.S. dollar trading in the upper 87 yen range is also shown.

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Elephant in Chiba Pref. zoo draws picture

CHIBA, Japan - Asian elephant Yumeka holds a brush in her trunk and draws a picture of her father on a bag at the Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, a zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2012. The bag will be put up for auction, with the proceeds going to areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Japanese PM Noda before his televised address

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo waits before delivering a televised address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2012. Noda said Japan is recovering from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and expressed gratitude for the support Japan received from the international community. (Pool Photo)

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Poster project to support disaster-hit areas

MIYAKO, Japan - About 150 people gather for a photo shoot in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2012, for the poster project ''A Beacon of Rebirth'' which aims to support the reconstruction of areas hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The levee in the back was swallowed by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. The proceeds from sales of the posters will be donated to disaster-hit municipalities.

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Environment Minister Hosono inspects debris storage site

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, who concurrently serves as nuclear disaster minister, inspects on Jan. 28, 2012, a temporary storage site for debris created by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

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People in Tokyo walk home after March 2011 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 11, 2011, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows people walking to their homes after the massive earthquake paralyzed the public transportation systems in the capital area. Some 34 percent of people walked home from their workplaces or schools in Tokyo's 23 wards without waiting for the resumption of public transportation services, a survey by the Railway Technical Research Institute showed Jan. 28, 2012.

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U.S. sailor weathers storms, races for berth in London Olympics

EAST HAVEN, United States - U.S. sailor Alice Leonard speaks in front of a storm-damaged house in her East Haven, Connecticut neighborhood on Jan. 4, 2012. Hurricane Irene struck the area on Aug. 28, 2011, destroying at least 25 houses and causing extensive damage. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Highball bar in Shimbashi, Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A man passes by Highball Bar Shimbashi 1923 in Tokyo's Shimbashi business district on March 3, 2011. The bar, which opened on Jan. 28, has been attracting company employees after they finish work.

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Raw meat sushi bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A group of women are seen at restaurant Nikuzushi (meat sushi), which specializes in raw meat, including beef, chicken, pork, deer and horse meat, in Tokyo's Ebisu district on Jan. 28, 2011. At least 60 percent of customers at the restaurant, which opened in May 2010, are women, with many of them around 30 years old, according to its operator Spice Works.

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Ozawa indicted over fund misreporting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010, expressing his will to appear before a parliamentary ethics panel to explain his alleged involvement in a funds scandal. Ozawa was indicted on Jan. 31, 2011, over accounting irregularities involving his political funds body.

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Looters attack streets of Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Men stand outside a looted pharmacy in Cairo on Jan. 30, 2011. The absence of police on the streets since the night of Jan. 28 has caused widespread chaos and violence in the Egyptian capital.

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Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2011, shows Hotel Fujita Kyoto, which closed Jan. 29 after hosting many celebrities including Japanese movie stars Yujiro Ishihara and Ken Takakura during its 41-year history in Kyoto, one of Japan's premier tourist destinations.

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Protesters in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-government demonstrators face off with riot police in central Cairo on Jan. 28, 2011.

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Eve of Asian Cup final

DOHA, Qatar - Japan national soccer team captain Makoto Hasebe (L) and manager Alberto Zaccheroni attend a press conference in Doha on Jan. 28, 2011, ahead of an Asian Cup final match against Australia the next day.

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Protesters in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-government demonstrators flee after clashing with riot police in central Cairo on Jan. 28, 2011.

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U.N. urges Pyongyang to reinvestigate abduction cases

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to fulfill its promise made in August 2008 to reinvestigate its past abductions of Japanese nationals, stressing the need to swiftly resolve the issue as the victims and their families get old.

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Suntory eyeing wealthy Chinese

TOKYO, Japan - Nobutada Saji, president of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. Saji said Suntory will seek to boost annual sales in China to 100 billion yen from the current 30 billion yen by stepping up marketing of vintage wines, health foods and other high-quality products for wealthy Chinese people.

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Settlement plan for Iressa drug damages suits rejected

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese health minister Ritsuo Hosokawa announces the government's decision to reject a court settlement plan for damages suits over side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa in a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011.

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Off to Davos

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Banri Kaieda, minister of economy, trade and industry, wave as they depart from Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011, for the Swiss resort of Davos to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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Issey Miyake honored by Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan - Fashion designer Issey Miyake shows a certificate issued by the city of Hiroshima bestowing on him the title of honorary citizen at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. The city praised Miyake's efforts to call for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. The 72-year-old designer was 7 when he survived the atomic bombing of the western Japan city in 1945.

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Icebreaker in Sea of Okhotsk

OBIHIRO, Japan - The icebreaker Aurora, carrying tourists to view drift ice, plows its way in the Sea of Okhotsk on Jan. 28, 2011, after leaving the port of Abashiri in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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'Sun pillar' in Japan

OBIHIRO, Japan - A ''sun pillar,'' created by the reflection of sunlight on ice crystals in the atmosphere, appears in the mountains of Kitami in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on the morning of Jan. 28, 2011.

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Megabank personnel shake-up

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Senior Managing Director Takeshi Kunibe (L) and Koichi Miyata, another senior managing director of the major Japanese bank. Kunibe will succeed Masayuki Oku as president of SMBC, while Miyata will replace Teisuke Kitayama as president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., SMBC's holding company, on April 1, 2011, the two firms said Jan. 28, 2011.

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Mazda to supply Premacy minivan to Nissan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mazda Motor Corp.'s Premacy minivan. Mazda will begin supplying Premacy to Nissan Motor Co. in May 2011 for sale under the Nissan brand, the two automakers said on Jan. 28, 2011.

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Kan in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a House of Councillors plenary session at the Diet in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011.

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Kim Jong Un turns 28

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010, shows Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's third son and heir. He turned 28 on Jan. 8, 2011, though the North's media did not report any celebratory events.

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New Year globefish auction in Shimonoseki

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Brokers take part in the year's first auction for globefish at the Haedomari market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Jan. 4, 2011. The highest bid reached 28,000 yen per kilogram, more than double the previous year's top price.

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Outgoing Miyazaki Gov. Higashikokubaru

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Outgoing Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks at a press conference in Miyazaki City on Dec. 28, 2010. Higashikokubaru said he has not decided on his future course after the end of his term on Jan. 20, 2011, denying media reports that he is likely to run in a Tokyo gubernatorial election in the spring of 2011.

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Children play soccer on school ground vacated by temporary homes

Children play soccer on the playground of Taro No.3 Elementary School in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2015. The school yard has become more spacious due to the removal of temporary homes built behind the goal posts for evacuees after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster-displaced north Japan town assembly holds 1st meet at home

The town assembly of Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, holds a session at its principal building on Jan. 28, 2015, for the first time since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that had forced it to meet outside the northeastern Japan town. Home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the town remains off-limits to residents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi Gov. Murai offers flowers at tsunami-ruined building

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai offers flowers on Jan. 28, 2015, in front of a building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku, destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, before talks with the mayor of the town. In the disaster, 43 people died while working inside the building used as the town's anti-disaster headquarters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People call for demolition of tsunami-ruined north Japan building

Residents in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, gather in front of the town office on Jan. 28, 2015, to call for the prompt demolition of a building destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that ravaged the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. Used as the town's anti-disaster headquarters, the building, where 43 people died in the disaster, is at the center of a controversy over whether it should be promptly demolished or preserved as a memorial of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dispute continues over fate of tsunami-ruined north Japan building

A building destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, shown in this photo taken on Jan. 28, 2015, is at the center of a controversy over whether it should be promptly demolished or preserved as a memorial of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Psychic experiences in Tohoku helping people deal with grief

Photo taken Jan. 28, 2016 shows Ayane Suto, who lost her father in the 2011 tsunami disaster, with her son at publisher Araemishi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highball bar in Shimbashi, Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A man passes by Highball Bar Shimbashi 1923 in Tokyo's Shimbashi business district on March 3, 2011. The bar, which opened on Jan. 28, has been attracting company employees after they finish work. (Kyodo)

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Protesters in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-government demonstrators flee after clashing with riot police in central Cairo on Jan. 28, 2011. (Kyodo)

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U.N. urges Pyongyang to reinvestigate abduction cases

TOKYO, Japan - Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2011. Darusman urged Pyongyang to fulfill its promise made in August 2008 to reinvestigate its past abductions of Japanese nationals, stressing the need to swiftly resolve the issue as the victims and their families get old. (Kyodo)

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Protesters in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-government demonstrators face off with riot police in central Cairo on Jan. 28, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Raw meat sushi bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A group of women are seen at restaurant Nikuzushi (meat sushi), which specializes in raw meat, including beef, chicken, pork, deer and horse meat, in Tokyo's Ebisu district on Jan. 28, 2011. At least 60 percent of customers at the restaurant, which opened in May 2010, are women, with many of them around 30 years old, according to its operator Spice Works. (Kyodo)

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Kim Jong Un turns 28

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010, shows Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's third son and heir. He turned 28 on Jan. 8, 2011, though the North's media did not report any celebratory events. (Kyodo)

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Report on U.S. base relocation

NAHA, Japan - An employee of the Okinawa prefectural government checks the content of the environmental impact assessment report on the relocation of a U.S. Marine base within the prefecture at the government office in Naha on Jan. 5, 2012. Delivering the report to the prefectural government drew public attention late 2011 after protesters blocked the report's submission and the Defense Ministry managed to get it through by delivering it in the predawn hours of Dec. 28 when protesters were scarce. (Kyodo)