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Oct 11, 1999 · Sony Co-Founder Akio Morita Dies at 78. October 11, 1999. by EDN Staff. Comments 0. Advertisement. 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.
Oct 4, 1999 · Mr. Morita died of pneumonia, according to Sony. He had been hospitalized in Tokyo since August, after returning from Hawaii, where he had spent most of his time since suffering a debilitating...
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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]
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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...
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...
Nov 13, 2006 · 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...
Mar 19, 2023 · Takeo Kikkawa. Chapter. Open Access. First Online: 19 March 2023. 2217 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter introduces the entrepreneurs, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita of Sony, and Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa of Honda Motor, all who played a leading role in economic growth. Download chapter PDF. “Sony of the World”; “Honda of the World”