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It ended in divorce, but helped propel Ibuka into Japan's military-industrial complex; during World War II he did research on heat-seeking missiles and created an amplifier designed to help aircraft pilots detect submarines. In the course of his company's involvement in military research, he met Morita, then a representative of the Japanese ...
Rebuilding from the Ashes. In September 1945, Masaru Ibuka returned to Tokyo to begin work in the war-damaged capital. A narrow room with a telephone switchboard located on the third floor of the Shirokiya Department Store (Tokyu Department Store which closed on January 1999) in Nihombashi became the new workshop for Ibuka and his group.
After graduating from Waseda University in 1933, Masaru went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film, and later served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II where he was a member of the Imperial Navy Wartime Research Committee.
In 1945, after World War II, Ibuka left to start a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo. The next year he was joined by his colleague Akio Morita, and they founded...
Ibuka. Masaru Ibuka. Masaru Ibuka was the co founder of Sony (initially Tokyo telecommunications engineering corperation). He and Akio Morita founded the company in 1946 and was instrumental in securing the licensing of transistor technology from Bell Labs. Sony was the first company to apply transistor technology to non-military uses.
In September 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in the bomb-damaged Shirokiya department store building in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo.
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Before founding the Sony Corporation, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita served in the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II. On this day the foundations of the gigantic Japanese Sony Corporation were laid. Namely, in 1946 Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita in Tokyo founded a company to sell electrical equipment, under the name “Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo”.
