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- Akio Morita, the naval officer, and Masaru Ibuka, the engineer, would stay partners and friends for more than 40 years, along the way building Sony, one of the iconic brands of the Japanese economic miracle.
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Morita became president of Sony in 1971, taking over from Ibuka who had served from 1950 to 1971. In 1975, Sony released the first Betamax home videocassette recorder, a year before the VHS format came out. Ibuka retired in 1976 and Morita was named chairman of the company.
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Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
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1908–1997. 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.
Nov 13, 2006 · But Ibuka and Morita built an Asian company synonymous globally with quality and style. To all who followed — in Japan, in Southeast Asia and increasingly in China — the standard was set by two...
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.
(*) Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony, first encounterd each other at the meetings of the Wartime Research Committee that was studying new types of weapons during the war. The two men became close friens, thought Ibuka was more than a dozen years older. In addition to work, radio repairs brought employees an extra reward as well.
Oct 3, 1999 · Once Sony products began to sell well internationally, Morita opened factories in the United States and Europe in addition to those in Japan. With Ibuka’s innovative consumer products and Morita’s business savvy, Sony became a major competitor in the electronics industry.
