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Oct 3, 1999 · Before that he was the junior partner to Masaru Ibuka, an engineering genius who, while not as widely known in the West, is considered in Japan to be the main founder of Sony. Mr. Ibuka died in ...
Oct 4, 1999 · Before that, he was the junior partner to Masaru Ibuka, an engineering genius who, while not as widely known in the West, is considered in Japan to be the main founder of Sony. Mr. Ibuka...
Morita saw a newspaper article about Ibuka's new venture and, after some correspondence, chose to join him in Tokyo. With funding from Morita's father, they co-founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Corporation) in 1946 with about 20 employees and initial capital of ...
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Oct 3, 1999 · tokyo — Akio Morita, the son of a sake brewer who built Sony Corp. into one of the most powerful brand names in the world, died today of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital, the company said. He was 78.
Oct 2, 2005 · He was 89. Mr. Ibuka was a founder with Akio Morita and others of a company that later took the name Sony. Its success became an emblem of Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II. "Mr. Ibuka ...
Ibuka died in Tokyo on December 19, 1997. “Mr. Ibuka has been at the heart of Sony's philosophy,” Sony president Nobuyuki Idea was quoted as saying in the New York Times.
Dec 20, 1997 · Masaru Ibuka, 89, the founder of Sony Corp. who turned a radio repair shop into one of the world's electronics powerhouses, died of congestive heart failure here Dec. 19.
