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- During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka at a study group for developing infrared-guided bombs (Ke-Go) in the Navy's Wartime Research Committee.
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Nov 13, 2006 · But Ibuka and Morita built an Asian company synonymous globally with quality and style. To all who followed — in Japan, in Southeast Asia and increasingly in China — the standard was set by...
Akio meets Mr. Masaru Ibuka (Sony Founder and former Sony Chairman). At the time, Mr.Ibuka is the Managing Director of Japan Measuring Instruments Company. They meet at a Wartime Research Committee meeting
During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka at a study group for developing infrared-guided bombs ( Ke-Go) in the Navy's Wartime Research Committee. Sony. In September 1945, Ibuka founded a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
In 1946, a fellow wartime researcher, Akio 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 Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which became known as Sony Corporation in 1958.
There he met Ibuka Masaru, an engineering genius known for inventing a type of neon sign, and industry’s representative on the wartime research committee. At meetings of the committee, Morita admired Ibuka Masaru’s ability as an engineer, and Ibuka recognized Morita’s aptitude for business and engineering.
(*) Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony, first encounterd each other at the meetings of the Wartime Research Committee that was studying new types of weapons during the war. The two men became close friens, thought Ibuka was more than a dozen years older.
In 1946, Akio renewed his acquaintance with Masaru Ibuka and together they founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Akio was the eldest son of Kyuzaemon XIV and had been brought up in the expectation that he would succeed his father as Kyuzaemon XV.
