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* She is one of the two IJN ships remaining today.
 
* She is one of the two IJN ships remaining today.
 
* Souya was built in Japan as a Soviet commission under the name "Volochaevets". She was never delivered to the USSR and became a Japanese cargo ship instead, before being requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
 
* Souya was built in Japan as a Soviet commission under the name "Volochaevets". She was never delivered to the USSR and became a Japanese cargo ship instead, before being requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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* Her mascots are Taro and Jiro, the two Sakhalin Huskies that survived for eleven months in Antarctica after being left behind by the 1958 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition.
    
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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