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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. Feb 4, 2016 · Masaru Ibuka was born in the city of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, on April 11, 1908. He was a very inquisitive child who was fond of experimenting. One of the earliest short-wave hams in Japan; his calls have been logged in overseas records back in the days of 1926.

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  4. Ibuka. Masaru Ibuka. Masaru Ibuka was the co founder of Sony (initially Tokyo telecommunications engineering corperation). He and Akio Morita founded the company in 1946 and was instrumental in securing the licensing of transistor technology from Bell Labs. Sony was the first company to apply transistor technology to non-military uses.

  5. Masaru Ibuka. 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 ...

  6. Feb 26, 1998 · Ibuka died on 19 December 1997, almost 50 years to the day after that announcement from Bell Labs and the debut of the invention which he was to help develop so far. Ibuka was born on 11 April ...

    • Gerhard Fasol
    • 1998
  7. Dec 20, 1997 · Masaru Ibuka, a low-key engineer who co-founded one of Japan's greatest postwar successes, the Sony Corporation, died yesterday at his home in Tokyo. Mr. Ibuka, who was 89, died from heart failure ...

  8. Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony. Career On 1908, Masaru Ibuka was born as the first son of Tasuku Ibuka who was a student of Inazo Nitobe. But Masaru lost his father at an early age. Masaru moved to Kobe because his mother remarried. He could pass the entrance exam of Hyogo Prefectural 1st Kobe Boys’ School (now, Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School ...