To understand Sony, understand its founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Even though both are now gone, their executive dynasty and its haphazard, emotional governance established the model for the ...

On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory), a company dedicated to reconstructing and elevating post-war Japan’s culture through ...

Masaru Ibuka started Sony, humbly, in post-war Japan above a department store, 53 years ago today. Their opening charter warned, “We must avoid problems which befall large corporations.” The founder ...

Sony has had some tough times recently, and while it's finally started to make some difficult changes in a bid to turn its fortunes around, the Archives building is where the company's success stories ...

Masaru Ibuka, the man who co-founded world's biggest electronics manufacturer, Sony Corporation was so passionate about his work that at some point during his career, he tried to stick his eyelids ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. World War II left Japan in ruins, but it still had plenty of talented scientists and engineers.

Akio Morita helped take a small radio repair shop in a bombed-out Tokyo building and turn it into the powerhouse electronics company, the Sony Corporation. Along with co-founder Masaru Ibuka, Morita ...

This week is a bonus episode that follows on from Episode 57, in which we talked with Matt Alt about his new book, "Pure Invention." This episode is based around an extract from the audiobook of "Pure ...