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Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
Ibuka maintained a variety of interests outside work; he was an avid golfer, and from 1985 to 1994 he served as chairman of the Boy Scouts of Nippon. In later years he also served as president of the Japan Institute for Invention and Innovation, and of the Japan Audio Society.
Mr. Ibuka was Sony's president from 1950 to 1971, then chairman to 1976, when he retired from active participation in the company and became honorary chairman.
Feb 4, 2016 · Ibuka and his wife, Mrs. Yoshiko Ibuka, are avid golf enthusiasts. They have two daughters, a son, and two grandchildren. (Editor´s Note: Mr. Ibuka passed away on 19 December 1997 in Tokyo, Japan.)
Oct 2, 2005 · Published Dec. 20, 1997 | Updated Oct. 2, 2005. Masaru Ibuka, who guided Sony Corp.'s rise from a humble radio shop to a world electronics leader and helped change global perceptions of...
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.
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Feb 16, 1998 · Masaru Ibuka obituary in NATURE by Gerhard Fasol. After Masaru Ibuka (井深大) died on December 19, 1997, NATURE asked me to write an obituary about Masaru Ibuka, which was published in Nature on February 26, 1998, and you can download the article as a pdf-file here.
