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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 .
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 ...
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 · Oct. 3, 1999 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. TOKYO —. 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 ...
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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.
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]
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 ...
