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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 ...
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 11, 1999 · 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. Morita passed away last Sunday in Tokyo at the age of 78.
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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...
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Biography: Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sony Corporation, one of the world's leading technology and entertainment companies. Alongside his business partner Akio Morita, Ibuka played a pivotal role in the development of innovative consumer electronics products that revolutionized the industry ...
Oct 2, 2005 · He was 89. Mr. Ibuka was a founder with Akio Morita and others of a company that later took the name Sony. Its success became an emblem of Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II. "Mr. Ibuka ...
Early life. 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 ...
