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	IEEE History Center - Legacies: Masaru Ibuka
		Masaru Ibuka was born in the city of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, on April 11, 1908.
		Ibuka specialized in telecommunications and educational electronics, as well as in the broadcast studio control, especially magnetic recording equipment.
		Ibuka is a Fellow of IEEE and Vice President.
	www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/legacies/ibuka.html (643 words)

	Masaru Ibuka
		Ibuka was born in 1908 in Nikko City, Japan.
		Ibuka's company -- now named Sony, a combination of the Latin word for sound "sonus" and the chic Japanese boys of the time nicknamed "sonny" -- quickly took over the market.
		Ibuka led Sony in directions that were unusual for a Japanese company at the time, as they tried to create more of their own products instead of simply modifying Western technology.
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/addlbios/ibuka.html (471 words)

	CE Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ibuka was an enthusiastic radio ham from an early age, and studied electrical engineering.
		Ibuka and Morita incorporated with $500 of capital and seven employees started work in an abandoned department store amid the devastation of early 1946.
		Ibuka was intrigued by the tiny transistor, which consumed very little power.
	cea.tmghosting.com /publications/hall_of_fame/ibuka_m_00.asp (305 words)

	Masaru Ibuka - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Masaru Ibuka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Masaru Ibuka - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Masaru Ibuka.
		Masaru Ibuka (井深大 Ibuka Masaru, April 11, 1908 in Nikko City, Japan - December 19, 1997 in Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industrialist.
		He also authored the book 'Kindergarten is Too Late' (1971) where he claims that the most significant human learning occurs between ages -9 months to 3 years and suggests ways and means to take advantage of this.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Masaru-Ibuka.html (189 words)

	Sony co-founder Ibuka dies at 89 (AP) Dec. 19, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ibuka was a founder with Akio Morita and others of a company that later took the name Sony.
		Ibuka, nicknamed "genius inventor'' in college, began producing radio parts after he started a repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo in 1945 as Japan was struggling to rise from the ruins of defeat.
		Ibuka is survived by a son and two daughters.
	vikingphoenix.com /news/archives/1997/jp970042.htm (507 words)

	Sony Global - Press Release - Masaru Ibuka 1908-1997
		Ibuka is acclaimed as the innovator who led Sony to create new and unique products that broke from the Japanese corporate tradition of merely copying technology and ideas from the west.
		Ibuka asked me, 'what would you like to have as a present to celebrate your new assignment?' Later, I received a fountain pen from him as a gift, and it has become a lifetime treasure for me. I have learned many things from him and today, I feel a great loss.
		Ibuka continue to be at the core of Sony's philosophy, and that we pass on his legacy to our future generations.
	www.sony.net /SonyInfo/News/Press/199801/ibuka-e.html (1098 words)

	Sony Global - Sony History
		Masaru Ibuka before leaving Japan on his first trip to the United States.
		Ibuka, who had assumed that the plane would fly to Anchorage nonstop, felt ill at ease and wondered, "Where am I?" Looking about and listening to the stopover announcement carefully, he learned that the plane had landed on Semichi, a western island in the Aleutian Islands.
		Ibuka found out later about daylight savings time in the U.S. But it was too late, and Ibuka missed the chance altogether to see this friend.
	www.sony.net /Fun/SH/1-4/h1.html (702 words)

	Log in ...Tribune: IT supplement of The Tribune, Chandigarh, India. Feature page
		T was 25 years ago when Sony Corp founder Masaru Ibuka complained that his cassette player was too heavy to take on business trips and asked the company’s engineers to create a smaller, portable player with headphones.
		Those engineers presented Ibuka with a modified version of the "Pressman", a tape recorder that Sony had launched in 1977, but they altered the machine to be a playback-only device.
		Ibuka loved his new toy and so was born the Walkman.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031006/login/main8.htm (469 words)

	History :: Sony Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In October, Ibuka and his group established a new facility, called "Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyujo"(Totsuken), or "Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute." Although everyone was eager to work for the new company and to help rebuild post-war Japan with their engineering know-how, no one knew what to do at first.
		Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony, first encounterd each other at the meetings of the Wartime Research Committee that was studying new types of weapons during the war.
		Whenever Ibuka visited Tachikawa, the whole family would make such a big fuss, saying,"Masaru is here,"and they would hide their clocks and other such items so as to prevent Ibuka from tinkering with them.
	www.sony.com.ph /about_history.asp (721 words)

	Sean's Webpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony was founded in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita.
		Ibuka was a practical visionary and had a sense of what could be used in everyday life.
		Ibuka inspired his engineers to work beyond their potential and has thus helped make Sony a corporation that makes over $60 billion worldwide.
	www.pitt.edu /~sar38/companies.html (281 words)

	Variety.com - Masaru Ibuka dies at 89
		Masaru Ibuka, who co-founded Sony Corp. and led the development of tape recorders, transistor radios and the Trinitron TV system, died of heart failure Dec. 19 in Tokyo.
		Ibuka co-founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp., later renamed Sony Corp., early in the postwar era in 1946 with Akio Morita, who is the company's honorary chairman.
		Ibuka's expertise in magnetic powders and tape base material, which he acquired during his previous ca-reer at a photo chemical laboratory, led to the development of magnetic recording tape at Sony in 1949.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117433372 (203 words)

	Morita by Sony, for the record
		Ibuka, founded Sony with just over 20 people, and for over 40 years, they managed and shaped the direction of the company.
		Morita packed his belongings and prepared to leave for Tokyo, when an article about a research laboratory founded by Ibuka appeared in an Asahi newspaper column called, "Blue Pencil." With the end of the war, Ibuka had founded Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute to embark on a new beginning.
		Throughout their long partnership, Ibuka devoted his energies to technological research and product development, while Morita was instrumental in leading Sony in the areas of marketing, globalization, finance and human resources.
	www.mail-archive.com /fukuzawa@ucsd.edu/msg09289.html (1686 words)

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		On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp.), which later became Sony Corp. in 1958.
		Their partnership fostered what was to become one of the most successful companies of the 20th century.
		Morita and Ibuka met for the first time in 1944 in Japan's Navy Wartime Research Committee.
	www.reed-electronics.com /electronicnews/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA48039 (573 words)

	Sony : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		Sony's cofounders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, met near the end of World War II.
		Ibuka was an engineer with a childlike love for gadgetry and technology; Morita, a pragmatic physicist who arranged to be away from his military unit on the day Japan surrendered, fearful that all officers would be ordered to commit ritual suicide.
		By the story's end we feel almost as though we know personally Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, and Norio Ohga, the men who lived and made Sony.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0618126945/Sony.html (826 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| TIME 100: Akio Morita \| 8/23/99-8/30/99
		Ibuka was reluctant to let him go: no Japanese organization had ever sent its No. 2 man to live abroad.
		Ibuka finally agreed when Morita promised to spend a week in Tokyo every two months.
		If Morita's move to New York was unsettling to Sony, it was also a profound disruption in the lives of his wife Yoshiko, who spoke no English at the time, and their three young children.
	www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/morita1.html (1312 words)

	i.t. matters : news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TOKYO -- It was 25 years ago when Sony founder Masaru Ibuka complained that his cassette player was too heavy to take on business trips and asked the company's engineers to create a smaller, portable player with headphones.
		Ibuka with a modified version of the "Pressman," a tape recorder that Sony had launched in 1977, but they altered the machine to be a playback-only device.
		Ibuka and former Chief Executive Akio Morita pushed Sony from a tiny transistor radio maker to the world's largest consumer electronics company, but April's "Sony Shock" revealed that staying at the top might be more difficult.
	itmatters.com.ph /news/news_10022003g.html (842 words)

	Masaru Hayami - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Masaru Hayami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Masaru Hayami - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Masaru Hayami.
		Here you will find more informations about Masaru Hayami.
		The president of the Bank of Japan from 1998 to 2003.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Masaru-Hayami.html (96 words)

	The first step to learning - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A less-known side of Ibuka is that he was the president of the Early Development Association of Japan.
		But Ibuka insisted that the child’s potential for learning is greatest earlier on, during the first three years of its life!
		Ibuka’s thrust on infant education was not just a personal fancy idea, it was backed by significant findings of ongoing research in the area of brain science being carried out in the western world.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec05/spt12.asp (1779 words)

	Akio Morita
		Along with co-founder Masaru Ibuka, Morita is responsible for egging on the amazing growth of the Japanese electronics industry over the last 50 years.
		Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1921 the son of sake brewers.
		The Japanese were still hard hit by the war, and couldn't really afford expensive electronics, so Ibuka set his sights on the American market with a brand new idea -- a small, transistorized radio that could fit in your pocket.
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/addlbios/morita.html (332 words)

	Invisible Heroes - Hero
		In 1946, as Japan rose from the rubble of a devastating world war, Masaru Ibuka and his partner opened a repair shop among the broken fragments that once were Tokyo.
		They called their shop “Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo” and said its purpose would be “To do what others have not done.” In the years to come, repairman Masaru Ibuka would become widely known for his books on the education of young children.
		During these years, when Ibuka would drop in to visit his cousin Tachikawa, the family would silently fly around the house, whispering “Masaru is here,” hiding their clocks and other items to prevent Ibuka from tinkering with them.
	www.invisibleheroes.com /hero.asp?issue=204 (516 words)

	Free Term Papers on Sony before it was 'SONY'
		In October, Ibuka and his group established a new facility, called "Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute." Although everyone was eager to work for the new company and to help rebuild post-war Japan with their engineering know-how, no one knew what to do at first.
		Ibuka had prepared a founding prospectus for the new company and had left it with family friend and colleague Tachikawa.
		Since Ibuka was so involved with preparations for the inauguration, he completely forgot to ask for the prospectus.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/60693.html (683 words)

	eda > Masaru Ibuka's
		Ibuka's first ideas can be found in his popular book, Kindergarten Is Too Late, published in 1971.
		He also shifted from the belief that intellectual development is the most important aspect of a child's education to the belief that nurturing the human elements of a child's personality should be our primary educational concern.
		From his unusual perspective, Ibuka discussed the issues of 'genetics and environment; the 'critical period: and 'pattern education; pointing the way towards a new era in education.
	www.sony-ef.or.jp /english/activity/eda/books.html (456 words)

	Sony Middle East and Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ibuka was a practical visionary who could foretell what products and technologies could be applied to everyday life.
		In the founding prospectus, he wrote of his wish to build a company whose employees gained satisfaction and pleasure from their work and his desire to create a fun, dynamic workplace.
		Ibuka urged his engineers to improve production methods with the goal of creating a consumer product, the transistor radio.
	www.sony-mea.com /sony_story.asp (729 words)

	Wizard Academy - Monday Morning Memo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Japan rose from the rubble of a devastating world war, Masaru Ibuka and his partner opened a repair shop among the broken fragments that once were Tokyo.
		In the years to come, repairman Masaru Ibuka would become widely known for his books on the education of young children.
		In his bestselling book, Kindergarten is Too Late, Masaru Ibuka expressed his philosophy of life: “Courage is not absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
	www.wizardacademy.com /showmemo.asp?id=127 (503 words)

	Sony : The Private Life: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		In addition to the interplay between Ibuka and Morita, Nathan documents the rise of Norio Ohga as the successor to the cofounders and also devotes a considerable amount of time to the relationship between Ohga and Mickey Schulhof, the highest-ranking American Sony officer before he was fired by the current Sony president Nobuyuki Idei.
		Ibuka was not a businessman; he was a
		The way that Ibuka uesd to motivated his people with his brave new idea resulted the invention of Walkman, CD player, and tritron, and they bravely moved into the American market.
	www.newyorkwebhosting.us /stuff-0395893275.html (5175 words)

	Masaru Ibuka -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		By 2002 Masaru Hayami, the governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), had become so alarmed at his country's faltering economy and its sluggish pace of reform that in September he announced an unprecedented move.
		Japanese electronics conglomerate; founded 1946 by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation; acquired license for the transistor from Western Electric for $25,000 in 1954 and began making radios; company name changed to Sony 1958; perfected color television 1968; began international marketing 1950s; under the leadership of Morita...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311785?tocId=9311785 (491 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award was established by the IEEE in 1987 and is presented for outstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology.
		The award is named in honor of Dr Masaru Ibuka, honorary chairman and co-founder of Sony Corporation.
		He is a Fellow of the AES, IEE, and IEEE; furthermore he received the AES Silver Medal in 1992, the IEE Sir J. Thomson Medal in 1993, the SMPTE Poniatoff Gold Medal for Technical Excellence in 1994.
	www.itsoc.org /publications/nltr/95_dec/awards.txt (186 words)

	Sony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sony Corporation is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under number 6758 and on the NYSE as SNE through ADRs.
		Sony was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees.
		Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company name tied to any particular industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sony_Corporation (1912 words)

	Who was the founder of sony - PointAsk Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most of the salaries were paid out of Ibuka's small, and dwindling, savings.
		Ibuka's factory repaired radios and made shortwave converters or adapters that could easily make medium-wave radios into superheterodyne, or all-wave receivers.
		() Ibuka* and Morita, the founders of Sony, first encounterd each other at the meetings of the Wartime Research Committee that was studying new types of weapons during the war.
	www.pointask.com /pointask/f_q.php3?qid=47545 (351 words)

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