Common beans and lentils in Europe and America navy beans (Europe), used in baked bean tins red kidney beans (common in America and Europe) chickpeas (Middle East, Mediterranean and India) black beans (South and Central America) butter beans, aka Lima beans (originate from south America and USA, now common in the UK) lentils (originate from Middle East, now common in the UK) cannellini beans, aka white kidney beans (originate from south America) chili beans, aka pink beans (originate from South America) pinto beans (common in Mexican and Southwest of the USA) Common beans in Asia soybeans (common in Asia), called edamame when they are immature soybeans 黄豆 edamame 毛豆 mung bean 绿豆 (Asia, esp. China
During the Second World War, in May 1943, the Derby Evening Telegraph carried reports of several local men who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, the first news that they were still alive. Some returned home but many did not survive the rigours of a Japanese war camp. Signaller J. E. Saunders (23), of the Royal Corps of Signals, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Saunders of 39, Mansfield-street, Derby, is also in Taiwan Camp. He enlisted in June, 1938, and was drafted to India in July, 1939, transferred to Malaya in 1941, and taken prisoner at Singapore. There were more than 16 Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during the Second World War, and almost 30,000 allied prisoners of war who travelled to and from the Taiwan camps or stopped here en route to Japan, Korea and Manchuria during WWII. To be a Far East Prisoner of War meant: 25% of FEPOWs captured by the Japanese were killed or died in captivity, compared with 5% of thos