Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was born in Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan on April 11th, 1908 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 89, Masaru Ibuka biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
After graduating from Waseda University in 1933, Masaru went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a film processing firm, and later served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, where he was a member of the Imperial Navy Wartime Research Committee. In September 1945, he left the company and navy behind and opened a radio repair shop in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
Akio Morita, a fellow wartime reporter, read a newspaper article about Ibuka's new venture in 1946, and after some correspondence, she decided to join him in Tokyo. They co-founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which became known as Sony Corporation in 1958, with funds from Morita's father. Ibuka was instrumental in securing the transfer of transistor technology from Bell Labs to Sony in the 1950s, making Sony one of the first companies to utilize transistor technology to non-military uses. In 1967, he led the research and development team that created Sony's Trinitron color television. Ibuka served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, then served as chairman of Sony from 1971 until he retired in 1976.
In 1960, Ibuka was awarded the Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon and was adorned with the Order of the Sacred Treasure's Grand Cordon in 1978 and 1986 with the Order of the Rising Sun's Grand Cordon. In that year, he was named a Person of Cultural Merit in 1989 and honoured with the Order of Culture in 1992. He was also distinguished as a Commander First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star of Sweden.
Ibuka received Honorary Doctorates from Sophia University, Tokyo, in 1976, and in 1994, from Brown University (US) in Tokyo. In 1972, the IEEE conferred the IEEE Founders Medal and the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, which was given to him in 1987.
Ibuka served as Chairman of the National Board of Governors of the Boy Scouts of Nippon. The Bronze Wolf was given the World Organisation of the Scout Movement in 1991. The Golden Pheasant Award, which was also awarded by the Scout Association of Japan in 1989.
Other awards include: 1964, The Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan's Distinguished Services Award, 1981, Humanistic Studies Award, aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; 1986, Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor, German Eduard Rhein Foundation; 1991, The Presidential Award and Medallion from the University of Illinois; 1991, The Institute of Humanistic Studies, Inc.
Ibuka wrote a book Kindergarten is Too Late (1971), in which he claims that the most important human learning happens from birth to three years old and suggests ways and means to take advantage of this. Glenn Doman, the book's foreword, was written by Glenn Doman, the author of The Institute for Human Potential, an organization that trains parents about child brain development.