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Known for. Co-founder of Sony. Spouse. Yoshiko Kamei. Children. 3. Awards. Albert Medal (1982) 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 .
- Yoshiko Kamei
- Co-founder of Sony
Oct 11, 1999 · On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp.), which later became Sony Corp. in 1958. At the time, Ibuka was 38 years old and Morita was 25. Their partnership fostered what was to become one of the most successful companies of the 20th century.
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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]
- 2 daughters, 1 son
- Co-founder of Sony
Media personality, Obi-Uchendu and his wife, Cynthia are celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary today, February 6. Beyond being thankful for the blissful journey, they are grateful to God they both survived COVID-19 infection, months back. In a tweet on Saturday, Ebuka expressed his gratitude for their survival and wished his sweetheart a ...
Ibuka and Morita, who listened to shortwave radio broadcasts from the United States, became convinced that Japan's loss was certain, and when the Emperor Hirohito announced the country's surrender on the radio, many members of Ibuka's team were happy at the chance to get away from developing military technology. Amid the ruins of postwar Tokyo ...
May 7, 2011 · Sixty-five years ago today, on May 7, 1946, more than twenty members of the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute, founded by Masaru Ibuka in the previous year, attended the inauguration ceremony which officially established the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Ibuka's father-in-law, Tamon Maeda was appointed president of ...
Nov 13, 2006 · Akio Morita & Masaru Ibuka. In 1944, a young officer in the Japanese Imperial Navy met a civilian radio engineer, 13 years his senior, on a task force to develop a heat-seeking missile. Within two years, World War II had ended, Japan was trying to rebuild its industrial base, and the two men were working together tinkering with radios and other ...
