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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.
As co-founder and longtime president of the Sony Corporation, Japanese executive Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997) conceived of and brought to fruition several of the most popular and fundamentally influential consumer electronics innovations of the twentieth century.
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.
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.
Nov 13, 2006 · Akio Morita, the naval officer, and Masaru Ibuka, the engineer, would stay partners and friends for more than 40 years, along the way building Sony, one of the iconic brands of the Japanese...
When Masaru Ibuka left the Navy after the war, he founded an electrical equipment store in Tokyo, in a former department store demolished by bombs. The following year Morita joined Ibuka, as a colleague from the Navy, and together they started a company.
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As Ibuka boarded the Northwest DC-6 jetliner at Haneda Airport after a send-off by his family and colleagues, he felt a little bit nervous. This was his first trip abroad and he could not communicate well in English. The Northwest passengers were asked to disembark in the middle of the night.
