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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 ...
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
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 ...
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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 ...
Dec 20, 1997 · Masaru Ibuka, 89, the founder of Sony Corp. who turned a radio repair shop into one of the world's electronics powerhouses, died of congestive heart failure here Dec. 19.
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.
Jan 6, 1998 · Share. 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.
