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Mar 18, 2022 · Man sentenced to life in prison for killing 7-year-old girl has appeal turned down. Mar. 18, 2022 04:35 pm JST. 0 Comment. TOKYO. The Tokyo High Court has turned down an appeal by a 27-year-old man sentenced to life in prison for killing a 7-year-old girl in Niigata City in 2018.
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- Masaru Ibuka
- Dubbed “Student Inventor of Genius”
- Bought Rights to Transistor
- Attributed Success to U.S. Military Orientation
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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. The public face of Sony for decades was its chairman and marketing wizard, Akio Morita, bu...
Born on April 11, 1908, in Nikko, Japan, in Tochigi Prefecture, Ibuka was interested in radio from the time he was young, and was an avid “ham” or amateur radio operator. His father was a beer brewer, and it was expected that young Ibuka would take over the family business. Ibuka attended Waseda High School and Waseda University, where he studied c...
Ibuka visited the United States in 1952, hoping to explore new recording technologies. While there, he encountered a then-obscure device called a transistor, a miniature semiconductor that could be used to amplify electronic signals. The transistor's U.S. manufacturer, Western Electric, marketed it primarily for use in military applications and hea...
Ibuka's consistent record of innovation flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which held that while Japanese manufacturers were efficient at developing existing ideas to perfection, they generally lacked creativity. Ibuka pointed to Sony's consumer orientation as an explanation. “The American electronics industry is spoiled by the emphasis on mi...
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May 8, 2021 · Man arrested over murder of Ibaraki couple in 2019. Police in Sakai, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 26-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a couple and attempting to kill two of their children at their home in September 2019.
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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.
Jan 6, 1998 · 1908-1997. Tweet. Share. Tokyo, Japan - It is with great sadness that Sony Corporation announced the loss of Masaru Ibuka, Founder and Chief Advisor, Sony Corporation. Mr. Ibuka passed away on Friday, December 19, 1997, at 03:38 a.m. at his home in Tokyo. The cause of death was heart failure. Mr. Ibuka was 89 years old.
Jan 4, 1998 · News. Jan 3, 1998 11:00pm PT. Masaru Ibuka dies at 89. Sony Corp. co-founder. By Variety Staff. Masaru Ibuka, who co-founded Sony Corp. and led the development of tape recorders, transistor...
Ibuka died on December 19, 1997, in Tokyo. (1908–97). Japanese businessman Ibuka Masaru was the cofounder and leading engineer of Sony Corporation. His development of the tape recorder, transistor radio, and many….
