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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...
During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka at a study group for developing infrared-guided bombs 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.
Oct 3, 1999 · Before that he was the junior partner to Masaru Ibuka, an engineering genius who, while not as widely known in the West, is considered in Japan to be the main founder of Sony. Mr. Ibuka died in...
Oct 3, 1999 · Akio Morita, the son of a sake brewer who built Sony Corp. into one of the most powerful brand names in the world, died today of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital, the company said. He was 78.
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 Japanese manufacturers in the process, died of heart...
Jan 4, 1998 · Masaru Ibuka, who co-founded Sony Corp. and led the development of tape recorders, transistor radios and the Trinitron TV system, died of heart failure Dec. 19 in Tokyo. He was 89.
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.
