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Apr 23, 2011 · Norio Ohga, one of the handful of men who shaped Sony into the global consumer electronics giant that it is today, died on Saturday morning in Tokyo at the age of 81, Sony said.
Apr 29, 2011 · Perhaps the person best suited to reminiscing about Ohga would be the one who wooed him away from his career as a performing musician, Sony's legendary founder Akio Morita, who died in 1999. Following are some passages from his 1986 book Made in Japan.
Apr 24, 2011 · Ohga became president of Sony in 1982, and CEO in 1989, in 1994 succeeding Akio Morita as company chairman. He entered semi-retirement in 2000, though he remained Chairman of the Board, and on his 73rd birthday in 2003 retired from the board and took the title of Honorary Chairman.
- Andrew Everard
Apr 24, 2011 · Former Sony President and Chairman Norio Ohga, who gave up a career as an opera singer to join the fledgling consumer electronics maker in the 1950s and later led its expansion from hardware to...
Apr 25, 2011 · Sony co-founders Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita immediately recruited Ohga for the company. His climb was rapid, and he was a Sony executive by his 30s, which is rare in a Japanese company.
- Michael Santo
Apr 25, 2011 · Norio Ohga, a onetime opera singer who plunged into consumer electronics, shaped the development of the compact disc, and rose to become chairman and chief executive of the Sony Corporation, died...
Although taken aback, the founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, met him and immediately sensed in Ohga the makings of a leader, and someone whose expert knowledge of sound and electrical ...
