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Ibuka, meaning "remember" in Kinyarwanda, is a non-governmental organization primarily working in the areas of remembrance and defending the rights of the survivors of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
- Masaru Ibuka
- Dubbed “Student Inventor of Genius”
- Bought Rights to Transistor
- Attributed Success to U.S. Military Orientation
- Periodicals
- Online
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...
Daily Mail(London, England), October 4, 1999. Fortune, February 24, 1992. Fresno Bee, December 20, 1997. Guardian(London, England), December 20, 1997. Independent(London, England), December 22, 1997. New York Times, December 20, 1997. Times(London, England), December 29, 1997.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007, http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC(December 6, 2007).
At the heart of Sony's long years of success was the relationship between its two founders — Ibuka the engineering fiddler, taking gadgets apart on the floor of his office to see how they worked;...
The Paris Peace Conference ended on 10 February 1947 with the signing of peace treaties by the wartime Allies with the former European Axis powers (Italy, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria) and their co-belligerent ally Finland.
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.
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). The aftermath of World War II was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementation of the United Nations as an intergovernmental organization, and the decolonization of Asia and Africa by ...
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Aug 2, 2016 · After the German surrender in May 1945, World War II ended in Europe. Its most immediate legacies were death, devastation, and misery. The scale and speed of the conflict had been unprecedented: the war ended up killing at least 19 million non-combatant civilians in Europe. 1 Of those, 6 million were Jews, a full two-thirds of the pre-war ...
