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Akio Morita was born in Nagoya. [1] Morita's family was involved in sake , miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Tokoname City ) on the western coast of Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture since 1665.
Oct 3, 1999 · Nearly six years after suffering a debilitating stroke, Sony Corporation co-founder Akio Morita has died. One of the world's most charismatic business executives, Morita succumbed to pneumonia on Sunday, October 3, in Tokyo. He was 78.The embodiment of the "new Japan," the tireless Morita nurtured a small startup electronics firm into the world's most widely recognized brand name.
Oct 11, 1999 · Morita passed away last Sunday in Tokyo at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife Yoshiko, sons Hideo and Masao and daughter Naoko. Morita and Ibuka met for the first time in 1944 in Japan's Navy Wartime Research Committee. Morita was a Navy lieutenant. When he returned home to Nagoya, Japan after World War II, he was invited to join the ...
- A Symbol of Japan’s Postwar Economic Miracle
- A Visionary Name Choice
- Resisting Temptation
- Ibuka’S Toy Becomes The Walkman
- New York Debut
- Controversial Opinions
- Amiable and Magnanimous
In December 2020, Ezra Vogel, famed US Japanologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University, passed away. Just a year earlier, in an interview with Mainichi newspaper’s Economist magazine, he lamented contemporary Japan’s loss of “hunger.” He spoke of the passing of the prominent entrepreneurs of postwar Japan, including Morita Akio, Honda Sōi...
The name “Sony” was the brainchild of Morita, who was adamant that the company name should be easy for people outside Japan to pronounce. He knew that neither Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō nor its Japanese abbreviation, Tōtsūkō, would do. He and Ibuka struggled to find a suitable name, finally settling on “Sony” in 1955. The name, registered in katakana, was...
The background to Sony’s emergence as a global brand includes a decisive episode that is now company lore. In 1955, the company developed the world’s second transistor radio, and a major US watch manufacturer offered to buy 100,000 units. Morita was initially impressed with the offer, given the scale of their business, but his excitement cooled whe...
Morita also possessed an eye for recognizing potential hit products. The story of the Walkman portable headphone cassette playeris a classic example. It began with a request in 1978 to developers by Ibuka, then honorary chairman, to customize a portable cassette player for him. He wanted to be able to enjoy music in stereo when flying overseas on a...
Morita’s pioneering global approach was radical. In 1962, Sony opened a showroom on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Morita believed that demand for Sony products would be spurred by a prominent presence in the Big Apple, visited by people from all over the world. A part of him also dreamed of brandishing the Japanese flag in this major arena of the busine...
Thanks to Morita’s desire to fit in, he gained many friends and acquaintances from diverse fields, including leading businessmen, heads of state, politicians, and artists. But the 1980s saw a growing fear in the West of the threat posed by Japanese business, and increasing trade friction with the United States and Europe. In 1989, Morita co-authore...
The first time I met Morita, I was impressed that although he was chairman of the company, he wore the same gray uniform as the employees, and was smiling and amiable throughout the interview. This man was contending with world heavyweights on an equal footing, but he was not intimidating. If anything, he had an air of humility. Many hoped that he ...
Oct 18, 1999 · Akio Morita, who died in early October, six years after suffering a debilitating stroke, deserves serious consideration as one of the dozen most important people in this century. It was Morita who proved that a company from a non-Western nation, Japan, could not only develop technologies equal to those of the West, but more important, could market them throughout the world.
Akio Morita fell seriously ill in 1993 after collapsing while playing tennis at his second home in Hawaii. He was later diagnosed with a brain haemorrhage and returned to Tokyo earlier last month. He died on Sunday (October 3) at the age of 78. The news was released by the Kyodo news agency who made no mention of the cause of death.
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Oct 3, 1999 · Oct. 3, 1999 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. TOKYO —. Akio Morita, the son of a sake brewer who built Sony Corp. into one of the most powerful brand names in the world, died today ...
