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    Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, Morita Akio, January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Akio...
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  • Learners. The Akio Morita School of Business is Anaheim University's Business School. It was named in honor of Sony founder Akio Morita (1921–1999). The...
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  • 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...
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    Sony was established in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. This electronics company, known for creating products such as the transistor...
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  • Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita. Masaru Ibuka was born on April 11, 1908, as the first son of Tasuku...
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  • racing driver Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, 1921–1999), Japanese businessman Akio Johnson Mutek (1958–2013), South Sudanese Roman Catholic bishop Akio Nakamori (中森...
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    quality evaluation, under the leadership of Akio Morita, SONY began to launch the Walkman in July 1979. Akio Morita positioned Walkman in the youth market...
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  • become governor of Tokyo (1999-2012); and Sony co-founder and chairman Akio Morita, in the climate of Japan's economic rise. It was famous for its critical...
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  • tape recorder's many failings, which got him noticed by Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita and other Totsuko executives. Because of his insight into music and technology...
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  • Morita (written: 森田 or 盛田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, 1921–1999), co-founder of the Sony Corporation...
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    Lauder William Levitt Lucky Luciano Louis B. Mayer Charles E. Merrill Akio Morita Walter Reuther Pete Rozelle David Sarnoff Juan Trippe Sam Walton Thomas...
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    studios since the company's founding on May 7, 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. Besides Sony Pictures Animation, who serves as...
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  • 2012 EP by Bella Thorne and Zendaya Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, autobiography of Akio Morita, co-founder and former chairman of Sony Corporation...
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  • a seismology laboratory at the University of Tokyo until 1946, when Akio Morita hired him to work at a predecessor of Sony. By 1950, he was a director...
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    1989 book, The Japan That Can Say No, co-authored with Sony chairman Akio Morita (published in English in 1991), called on the authors' countrymen to...
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  • Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his wartime research colleague, Akio Morita, and on 7 May 1946, they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo...
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    for a divorce from his Japanese bosses, Norio Ohga, below left, and Akio Morita. No matter who wins, writes Nigel Cope, the case will put a different...
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  • The Morita Foundation was conceived and headed by Sony co-founder and chairman until 1994 Akio Morita. Akio Morita gave much to Hawaii, Honolulu Star-Bulletin...
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    unprecedented prosperity through businesses such as Sony Corporation (founded by Akio Morita) and cultural influence, as in cinema by Akira Kurosawa. 1920s portal...
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