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Akio Morita was born in Nagoya. [1] Morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Tokoname City) on the western coast of Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture since 1665.
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s. [18]Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, [19] a department store building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo.
Howard Stringer, the first non-Japanese CEO of Sony, helped to reinvigorate the company's struggling media businesses, encouraging blockbusters such as Spider-Man while cutting 9,000 jobs. [9] Despite modest success, the company faced continued struggles from the mid-2000s and started to lose the leading position in the tech industry. [9]
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony is the 1986 autobiography of Akio Morita, co-founder and former chairman of Sony Corporation, written with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura. The book narrates the story of Morita's early life, the Sony Corporation's formation in the aftermath of Japan's brutal defeat in World War II and its subsequent ...
Chairman and CEO, Sony Signature Kenichiro Yoshida (born 20 October 1959) is a Japanese businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Sony since April 2018 and chairman since June 2020, succeeding Kazuo Hirai , prior to which Yoshida was the company's chief financial officer.
Idei joined Sony Corporation when he graduated from Waseda University. He started as a trainee working with the co-founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka and rose through the ranks as a marketing specialist. He left Sony and enrolled in a PhD program at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, but he did not obtain the degree.
In 1994, he succeeded co-founder Akio Morita as Sony chairman. The next year, he selected Nobuyuki Idei as the company's next president, a decision he later told author John Nathan appalled 99 out of 100 people at the company, and it led to a sweeping reorganisation of the company. Idei became co-CEO with Ohga in 1998, and sole CEO in 1999.