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- Morita suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1993 while playing tennis and on November 25, 1994, stepped down as Sony chairman to be succeeded by Ohga.
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Morita became president of Sony in 1971, [10] taking over from Ibuka who had served from 1950 to 1971. [11] In 1975, Sony released the first Betamax home videocassette recorder, a year before the VHS format came out. Ibuka retired in 1976 [11] and Morita was named chairman of the company. [10]
Nov 26, 1994 · Akio Morita, who built Sony Corp. into an international powerhouse and established himself as one of Japan's most visible and controversial businessmen, resigned on Friday as the company's ...
Morita did not become Sony's official president until 1971 and its CEO until 1976. Before that he was Ibuka's junior partner. Morita reached the peak of his career in 1993, at the age of 72, when he was picked to be the chairman of Keidanren.
When a vast consignment of TR-55 radios is sensationally stolen from a New York warehouse, the publicity establishes Sony’s reputation for desirability and many suspect that Morita, who will...
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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 ...
In 1994, Akio Morita (Morita), the co-founder of Sony Corporation (Sony), resigned from the post of the Chairman, following a paralytic stroke. Morita had spent almost half a century with the company, during which he positioned Sony as the world's most successful consumer electronics company.
Oct 3, 1999 · Despite being virtually synonymous with Sony, especially outside Japan, Mr. Morita did not actually become the company's president until 1971 and its chairman and chief executive...
