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

    Oct 4, 1999 · In Japan, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who was one of several hundred people to visit Mr. Morita's Tokyo home following his death, called Mr. Morita ''a leading figure who played a pivotal role in ...

  2. www.sony.com › en › SonyInfoSony Group Portal - Masaru Ibuka

    Jan 6, 1998 · 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. A private funeral service took place at 12:00 noon on Monday, December 22, at the Shinagawa Christian Church, 4-7-40, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku ...

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  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 ...

  5. www.nytimes.com › 1999/10/03 › worldAkio Morita, Key to Japan's Rise As Co-Founder of Sony, Dies ...

    Oct 3, 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 ...

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

    Dec 20, 1997 · 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 ...

  9. 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 ...