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Jan 6, 1998 · Tokyo, Japan - It is with great sadness that Sony Corporation announced the loss of Masaru Ibuka, Founder and Chief Advisor, Sony Corporation. Mr. Ibuka passed away on Friday, December 19, 1997, at 03:38 a.m. at his home in Tokyo. The cause of death was heart failure. Mr. Ibuka was 89 years old. He is survived by one son and two daughters.
Mar 19, 2023 · Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo changed its name to Sony in January 1958, and Ibuka served as president of the company from November 1950, becoming chairman in June 1971. He passed away in December 1997. Akio Morita was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, in January 1921 (Taisho 10), thirteen years after Masaru Ibuka.
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Jan 4, 1998 · Masaru Ibuka, who co-founded Sony Corp. and led the development of tape recorders, transistor radios and the Trinitron TV system, died of heart failure Dec. 19 in Tokyo. He was 89.
Rebuilding from the Ashes. In September 1945, Masaru Ibuka returned to Tokyo to begin work in the war-damaged capital. A narrow room with a telephone switchboard located on the third floor of the Shirokiya Department Store (Tokyu Department Store which closed on January 1999) in Nihombashi became the new workshop for Ibuka and his group.
In 1945, after World War II, Ibuka left to start a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo. The next year ... --"Sony co-founder Ibuka dies at 89," AP newswire, December 19, 1997 ...
Mar 14, 2019 · Later, with the capital of 190,000 Yen, he founded Tokyo-Tsushin Kenkyusho (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory) Co., following a merger into the Tokyo-Tsushin-Kogyo Co. In 1946, another Japanese researcher, Akio Morita, found out about Ibuka’s venture through the newspaper and was wanted to work with him.
