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Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, Morita Akio, January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.
The Walkman was originally made as a prototype so that Sony co-founder Akio Morita could listen to opera on long-distance flights.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.
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As cofounder and chairman of the Sony Corporation, Akio Moritabecame one of the most influential businessmen in the world. He introduced consumers to innovative products including the hand-held transistor radio, the video cassette recorder (VCR), the Walkman portable audio cassette player, and the Diskman portable compact disk player. At the same t...
Akio Morita was born on January 26, 1921, the first son of Kyusaemon and Shuko Morita, in the small village of Kosugaya near Nagoya, Japan. If he had followed the traditional family occupation, he would have been the fifteenth-generation heir to his family's sake brewing business. Influenced by his mother's love for classical music, he became inter...
Following World War II, Morita worked as a physics professor until, in 1946, he borrowed money from his father to start a new business with Ibuka. With $500, they created Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Corporation), with 20 employees sharing a rented office in a burned-out Tokyo department store. The company's first produc...
While Morita credited his partner Masura Ibuka as being Sony's technical genius, Morita served as the company's more visible spokesperson and promoter. He created the name "Sony" (easy to remember and say), and later replaced model numbers with the equally catchy product names Walkman, Handycam, and Watchman. It was Morita who learned English and t...
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Jan 8, 2004 · Jan. 8, 2004. Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp.) with about $375 U.S. in a bombed-out department store. In the 75 years...
Sep 29, 2024 · Morita Akio (born Jan. 26, 1921, Nagoya, Japan—died Oct. 3, 1999, Tokyo) was a Japanese businessman who was cofounder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976 through 1994) of Sony Corporation, a world-renowned manufacturer of consumer electronics products.
Oct 4, 1999 · More than any other individual, Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corp. who died Sunday in Tokyo at age 78, stimulated Japan’s ascent to a global economic powerhouse built on technology.
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Apr 12, 2017 · During the early 1950s, TTEC began to grow and began manufacturing its own products. In 1950 Morita and Ibuka designed one of the first magnetic tape recorders ever produced in Japan. Seven years later, the company introduced the first pocketsize transistor radio.
