Masaru Ibuka

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Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.


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instanceOf business executive
company founder
electronics engineer
entrepreneur
human
associatedWith Akio Morita
awardReceived Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
IEEE Founders Medal
Order of Culture (Japan)
businessPartner Akio Morita
causeOfDeath heart failure
coFounded Sony Corporation
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1908-04-11
dateOfDeath 1997-12-19
educatedAt Waseda University NERFINISHED
employer Sony Corporation
era Shōwa period
familyName Ibuka
fieldOfWork business management
consumer electronics
electronics engineering
founded Ibuka Laboratory
gender male
givenName Masaru
industry audio equipment
consumer electronics
television manufacturing
knownFor co-founding Sony Corporation
leadership in Japan’s postwar electronics industry
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
memberOf Science Council of Japan
name Masaru Ibuka NERFINISHED
nationality Japanese
nativeName 井深大
notableIdea emphasis on miniaturization in consumer electronics
focus on quality and innovation in Japanese manufacturing
notablePublication Kindergarten Is Too Late
notableWork development of consumer tape recorders at Sony
development of transistor radios at Sony
pioneering Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry
placeOfBirth Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan
placeOfDeath Tokyo, Japan
positionHeld chairman of Sony Corporation
president of Sony Corporation
residence Tokyo, Japan
workLocation Tokyo, Japan


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