So the Japanese called ordinary red beets, which during the Russo-Japanese war of the early twentieth century were cultivated by Japanese soldiers captured by the Japanese army.
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In the Japanese city of Himeji, the city-planning organization plans to revive the cultivation of rare red beets for the Land of the Rising Sun, as well as the opening of a restaurant specializing in beetroot menus by the end of this year.
The fact is that during the Russo-Japanese War in this city there were over 72 thousand Russian prisoners of war, placed in 29 camps. Here they are during their stay in captivity with the appropriate permission of the Japanese authorities and grown beets.
The owner of the culinary school Mika Haruto at one time, according to the stories of her grandmother, even wrote the book "Prisoner of Beet". After reading which one of the representatives of the city government, Tatsuro Tanaki, had the idea of reviving beets as a local delicacy and promoting it as part of the modern history of the city.
In 2017, seedlings were brought from Europe and the active cultivation of the vegetable began. In the season of the same year, a crop of three tons was harvested, and already in the next year, the crop amounted to almost four tons.
A little later, in October last year, the trademark “Beetroot Himeji Prisoner of Vegetable” was registered.
Now this beet can be purchased online or directly by consumers.
