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Sony's distinctive style of personnel management derives from the founding prospectus Masaru Ibuka penned for Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering), Sony's former name.
Ibuka replied at once, urging Morita to come to Tokyo. Since he had been offered a job as a lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokodai), Morita wasted no time in moving to Tokyo and in renewing their acquaintance.
Yuzuru Tanigawa, Ibuka's old friend who had a long relationship with Totsuko, had been sent to the New York branch of the Yamashita & New Japan Steamship Company prior to Morita's arrival in the U.S. Tanigawa had heard a lot in Japan about the transistor from Ibuka.
Akio Morita, Ibuka’s partner, brought different qualities to the venture. Born “the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to one of Japan’s finest and oldest sake-brewing families” (his own words), Morita’s role in life was apparently cast at birth.
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...
Masaru Ibuka. As co-founder and longtime president of the Sony Corporation, Japanese executive Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997) conceived of and brought to fruition several of the most popular and fundamentally influential consumer electronics innovations of the twentieth century. The public face of Sony for decades was its chairman and marketing ...
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Feb 4, 2016 · Masaru Ibuka was born in the city of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, on April 11, 1908. He was a very inquisitive child who was fond of experimenting. One of the earliest short-wave hams in Japan; his calls have been logged in overseas records back in the days of 1926.
