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  1. www.edn.com › sony-co-founder-akio-morita-dies-at-78Sony Co-Founder Akio Morita Dies at 78 - EDN

    Oct 11, 1999 · Morita passed away last Sunday in Tokyo at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife Yoshiko, sons Hideo and Masao and daughter Naoko. Morita and Ibuka met for the first time in 1944 in Japan's Navy Wartime Research Committee. Morita was a Navy lieutenant. When he returned home to Nagoya, Japan after World War II, he was invited to join the ...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Masaru_IbukaMasaru Ibuka - Wikipedia

    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

  4. content.time.com › time › magazineAsian Heroes: Akio Morita & Masaru Ibuka - TIME

    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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  6. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1999-oct-03-mnAkio Morita, Co-Founder of Sony, Dies at 78 - Los Angeles Times

    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 ...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 1997/12/20 › businessMasaru Ibuka, 89, Engineer And Sony Co-Founder, Dies

    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. www.nytimes.com › 1999/10/04 › businessAkio Morita, Co-Founder of Sony and Japanese Business Leader ...

    Oct 4, 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 ...

  9. www.tampabay.com › archive › 1997/12/20Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Sony Corp., dies at 89

    Oct 2, 2005 · He was 89. Mr. Ibuka was a founder with Akio Morita and others of a company that later took the name Sony. Its success became an emblem of Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II. "Mr. Ibuka ...