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Oct 4, 1999 · He is also survived by his brother Kazuaki, who volunteered to take over the family sake brewery in Mr. Morita's stead; another brother, Masaaki, a long-time Sony executive, and a sister, Kikuko...
He is also survived by his brother Kazuaki, who volunteered to take over the family sake brewery in Morita's stead; another brother, Masaaki, a long-time Sony executive, and a sister, Kikuko Iwama,...
Oct 3, 1999 · He cavorted with the rock star Cyndi Lauper after Sony bought CBS Records. Shortly before he suffered his stroke, Mr. Morita made waves in his home country by saying that Japan was like a...
Morita Akio Morita (1921-1999) was the charismatic co-founder of Sony Corp. Selected by Time magazine as one of 20 "most influential business geniuses" in the 20th century, he was arguably the best known Japanese in his time.
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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...
Contact at: Sony Corporation Sony Corporation 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome Tokyo, 141 Japan Business Phone: URL: http://www.world.sony.com
Marital Status: married, no children. Master of Arts. Has yet to replicate the success of his father, Akio Morita, who founded and built Sony into a global consumer electronics giant. Failed...
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