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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 economic miracle. Japan, of course, has had not one economic miracle but two — the first came after the Meiji Restoration, when a feudal society ...
Masaru Ibuka was born on April 11, 1908, as the first son of Tasuku Ibuka, an architectural technologist and a student of Inazo Nitobe. [4] His ancestral family were chief retainers of the Aizu Domain, and his relatives include Yae Ibuka and Ibuka Kajinosuke. Masaru lost his father at the age of two and was taken over by his grandfather. [5]
Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, Morita Akio, January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Early life [ edit ] Akio Morita was born in Nagoya . [1]
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”. They started using the name Sony only after 1955 due to the U.S. market, where the name “Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo” was ...
Kyuzaemon XIII's son Hikotaro was born in 1887. His mother was Chiyo, younger sister of Zenpei Morita (founder of Kabuto Beer and the Shikishima Baking Company). During his childhood and youth, Hikotaro watched his grandfather spend the family's fortune on his collection of antiques, and saw his father neglect the family business.
Akio is commissioned as a Navy technical lieutenant, working as a technician in avionic research at the Yokosuka Naval Base: 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: Oct
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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.
