Japanese cruiser Soya name was taken from the northernmost cape of Hokkaidō, Soya Misaki. After being placed into Japanese service as a 3rd class cruiser, "Soya" was used primarily for training duties. From 14 March 1909 to 7 August 1909, it made a long distance navigational and officer cadet training cruise to Hawaii and North America. It repeated this training cruise every year until 1913. During World War I Russia and Japan became allies and "Soya" (along with several other vessels) was transferred back to Russia at Vladivostok on 5 April 1916, and its original name of "Varyag" restored. Japanese cruiser Soya "Varyag"
Little Soya Little Soya Little Soya is the gluten free soy sauce brand owned by Little Products Co., LLC, based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Gary T. Murphy in 2008 when the Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada requested his company find a premium soy sauce in a fish-shaped container for its new buffet and room service guests. Little Soya is tested at less than 5 ppm gluten, below the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standard of twenty ppm, and is labeled non-GMO. The packaging is fish shaped, refillable, and 100% recyclable and in 2012 earned