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Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony
- Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
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Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita. [2] [3]
Jan 6, 1998 · 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.
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...
- Masaru Ibuka
- Dubbed “Student Inventor of Genius”
- Bought Rights to Transistor
- Attributed Success to U.S. Military Orientation
- Periodicals
- Online
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 wizard, Akio Morita, bu...
Born on April 11, 1908, in Nikko, Japan, in Tochigi Prefecture, Ibuka was interested in radio from the time he was young, and was an avid “ham” or amateur radio operator. His father was a beer brewer, and it was expected that young Ibuka would take over the family business. Ibuka attended Waseda High School and Waseda University, where he studied c...
Ibuka visited the United States in 1952, hoping to explore new recording technologies. While there, he encountered a then-obscure device called a transistor, a miniature semiconductor that could be used to amplify electronic signals. The transistor's U.S. manufacturer, Western Electric, marketed it primarily for use in military applications and hea...
Ibuka's consistent record of innovation flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which held that while Japanese manufacturers were efficient at developing existing ideas to perfection, they generally lacked creativity. Ibuka pointed to Sony's consumer orientation as an explanation. “The American electronics industry is spoiled by the emphasis on mi...
Daily Mail(London, England), October 4, 1999. Fortune, February 24, 1992. Fresno Bee, December 20, 1997. Guardian(London, England), December 20, 1997. Independent(London, England), December 22, 1997. New York Times, December 20, 1997. Times(London, England), December 29, 1997.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007, http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC(December 6, 2007).
Masaru Ibuka. Profession: Industrialist and Co-founder of Sony. Nationality: Japanese. Biography: Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sony Corporation, one of the world's leading technology and entertainment companies.
- April 11, 1908
- December 19, 1997
Masaru Ibuka. Masaru Ibuka was the co founder of Sony (initially Tokyo telecommunications engineering corperation). He and Akio Morita founded the company in 1946 and was instrumental in securing the licensing of transistor technology from Bell Labs.
Feb 4, 2016 · Mr. Ibuka is a Fellow of IEEE and Vice President. and President proxy of the Invention Association of Japan, as well as a past president of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan. He is also director or officer of many governmental or nongovernmental organizations in Japan, which include the Electronic Industry Association, Joint ...
