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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 ...
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Masaru was the first and eldest son of his parents. His father died at a young age, and he moved to Kobe with his mother after she remarried. He passed an entrance exam at a local school where he was quite successful in his grades and studies there. Ibuka graduated from Waseda University in 1933, with a film company.
He then enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and after wartime, started a radio repair shop in Nihonbashi. In 1946, Akio Morita decided to help Ibuka and join him with his business. With external funding, the duo founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which would later be known as Sony.
Ibuka retired from Sony in 1976, with a notable reputation as a technological entrepreneur. He received honorary doctorates from Tokyo’s Sophia University and Waseda Univerity, with one from the Brown University in the United States. He also received numerous awards and had one from the IEEE named after him. A book he wrote in 1971, Kindergarten is...
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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 daughters, 1 son
- Co-founder of Sony
Oct 11, 1999 · On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp.), which later became Sony Corp. in 1958. 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.
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 ...
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. Amid the ruins of postwar Tokyo ...
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 ...
