Died 1997-12-19.
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Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
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business · Japanese businessman (1908–1997) · entrepreneur · engineer · writer · also Masaru Ibuka, Ibuka Masaru, Ibuka
Born 11 April 1908 · Died 19 December 1997 · Q352496
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1997· 1 entry
1992· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Culture (1992).
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1991· 2 entries
Earned Bronze Wolf Award (1991).
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The World Organization of the Scout Movement awarded him the Bronze Wolf
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1989).
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And decorated with the Order of Culture in 1992
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Also received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award
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1979· 1 entry
To make him a portable music listening device, which engineers accomplished by modifying a portable tape recorder
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1976· 1 entry
From Waseda University, Tokyo in 1979, and from Brown University (US) in 1994
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1972· 2 entries
Won IEEE Founders Medal (1972).
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And named the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award after him in 1987
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1960· 1 entry
And was decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1978 and with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1986
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1946· 1 entry
A fellow wartime researcher, Akio Morita, saw a newspaper article about Ibuka's new venture and after some correspondence, chose to join him in Tokyo
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1933· 1 entry
Masaru went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film, and later served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II where he was a member of the Imperial Navy Wartime Research Commi
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1908· 2 entries
As the first son of Tasuku Ibuka, an architectural technologist and a student of Inazo Nitobe
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Born 1908-04-11.
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