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The engineering genius behind such products as the tape recorder and the all-transistor television, Masaru Ibuka grew his small electronics business into the giant Sony Corporation with cofounder Akio Morita. Masaru Ibuka was born in Nikko City, Japan, in 1908.
Masaru Ibuka was born on April 11, 1908, as the first son of Tasuku Ibuka, an architectural technologist and a student of Inazo Nitobe. His ancestral family were chief retainers of the Aizu Domain , and his relatives include Yae Ibuka and Ibuka Kajinosuke .
The two men worked closely together. Ibuka's son Makoto was quoted as saying in the London Daily Mail that the pair “were bound together by a tie so tight it was more like love than friendship.”
Profession: Industrialist and Co-founder of Sony. Nationality: Japanese. 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 ...
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Akio Morita, Ibuka’s partner, brought different qualities to the venture. Born “the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to one of Japan’s finest and oldest sake-brewing families” (his own words), Morita’s role in life was apparently cast at birth.
Ibuka was born in 1908 in Nikko City, Japan. He attended the School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University where he earned the nickname "genius inventor." When he graduated in 1933 he ...
