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  1. 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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  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

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

    Early life. 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 ...

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  7. www.washingtonpost.com › archive › localMASARU IBUKA, FOUNDER OF JAPAN'S SONY CORP., DIES AT 89

    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.

  8. www.encyclopedia.com › ibuka-masaruIbuka, Masaru | Encyclopedia.com

    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 ...

  9. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Case 16 Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda ... - Springer

    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.