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Morita was an advocate for all the products made by Sony. However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a "pocket sized" appearance. Morita founded Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, currently abbreviated as SCA) in 1960. [8]
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1981 Walkman IISony is arguably Japan's best known company and one of the world's largest and most well respected consumer-product manufacturers. Its products are world famous and sold everywhere around the globe. Surveys in early 2000s have showed that Sony was the most recognized and esteemed brand name in the United States (ahead of Coca Cola, G...
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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. Recognizable by his long white hair, parted in the middle, he functioned as product visionary, business strategist and chief...
Morita was full of energy and charms. He lit up a room when he entered, went out of his way to greet new people and made everyone who met him feel they were a friend. He spoke in imperfect but passionate English about products and ideas and was able to get away with making controversial nationalist remarks in part because he came across as so affab...
Morita and Ibuka From a young age Morita had been groomed to run the family sake business, which had been going for 14 generations. After the war Morita won a "temporary" reprieve from this obligation and went to Tokyo and met up his wartime buddy Masura Ibuka (1908-1997), who worked with Morita on the heat-seeking missiles. In Japan, Ibuka is larg...
Morita toured the United States, Germany and the Netherlands in 1953. He was inspired by the economic growth in the U.S. and Germany and felt that if the Dutch-company Phillips could succeed in the electronic business then so could his company. Morita arrives in U.S. with family Morita lived in New York for 15 months in the early 1960s with his fam...
early factory Morita and Ibuka founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. (the predecessor of Sony) in 1946 in a bombed out Tokyo department store building with an investment of less that $500. In the early years the company had 20 employees The company began by producing components and kits that upgraded AM radios into short wave radio...
1955 radio The product that changed Sony was a jade-green transistor radio first sold in 1955. It utilized transistor technology developed by AT&T's Bell Laboratories in 1947 for phone switching equipment and hearing aids. Sony licensed the rights to transistors in 1953 but didn't make the world's first transistor radio: an American company release...
1960 TV In the 1960s Sony revolutionized television as it had done with radio. It developed the first transistorized television in 1959 (an expensive and unreliable device that didn't sell well) and the Triniton color TV system in 1968. Those products made televisions smaller and more affordable and changed the way people lived by moving television...
Walkman prototype The Walkman miniature cassette player first went on sale in July, 1979. Inspired by pocket cassette recorders designed for dictation, it changed the way we lived by making music and electronics portable, personal and mobile. It changed the lifestyles and listening habits of millions and was particularly embraced by young people, c...
Feb 1, 2021 · Morita Akio, nicknamed “Mr. Sony,” was born 100 years ago. Veteran economic journalist Mori Kazuo reflects on Morita’s epic journey and entrepreneurial spirit. In December 2020, Ezra Vogel ...
Oct 3, 1999 · It was later that year that Sony paid $3.4 billion to buy Columbia Pictures, a purchase driven largely by Mr. Morita, who thought that if Sony had owned a studio issuing movies in the Beta format ...
Jan 13, 2018 · Akio Morita was succeeded by Norio Ogha. Norio had joined Sony in the 1950’s after he had sent Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of their tape recorders at the time. That’s one way ...
Oct 3, 1999 · 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. Morita came from a family with a long tradition of ...
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Oct 3, 1999 · Oct. 3, 1999 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. TOKYO —. Akio Morita, the son of a sake brewer who built Sony Corp. into one of the most powerful brand names in the world, died today ...
