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Morita, who loved to play golf and tennis and to watch movies when rainy, [23] suffered a stroke in 1993, during a game of tennis. [10] The stroke weakened him and left him in a wheelchair. [ 24 ] On November 25, 1994, he stepped down as Sony chairman.
And before there was Steve Jobs, there was Akio Morita. A marketing genius who built Sony into one of the world’s best-known and widely respected brands, Morita and Sony almost single-handedly shifted the negative, second-rate connota- tion of “made in Japan” and demonstrated that the nation, devastated by World War II, could become an ...
The Walkman was originally made as a prototype so that Sony co-founder Akio Morita could listen to opera on long-distance flights. The device, which was original marketed in Britain as the Stowaway, almost didn’t happen.
Jun 30, 2019 · To understand how the Sony Walkman story started, it’s important to know the man behind it – Akio Morita. Sony was founded in 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation by Morita and Masaru Ibuka, but Morita was the the creative force behind it.
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 ...
Mar 19, 2023 · Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda, and Takeo Fujisawa were outstanding because they built Sony and Honda into exceptional companies, but how did their actions differ from those of other top managers?
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Oct 3, 1999 · 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 of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital, the company said. He was 78.
