Sony's Founder Akio Morita

Akio Morita was born on January 26, 1921 in Nagoya. Morita’s family was most well known as the oldest and most famous sake tradition family in Nagoya. Akio Morita was the oldest brother among other four children; he was expected to inherit his family business.

Under the influences from Akio Morita’s mother’s love for classical music, young Akio Morita was fascinated by sound, and electronics or anything that creates sounds. When Akio Morita’s father bought him the first electric gramophone, he was thrilled, the sound that was creating by the friction was not was only keep him exciting but also confusing.

How does this electric gramophone operate? Akio Morita started to look up related book sand studied by his own, at the end he was finally able to build a electric gramophone and even a radio receiver by himself. This was the time Akio Morita decided to dedicate himself into electronic and physics, so regardless of high school or university, he was still focused on what he wants, and this helped the foundation of Sony in the future.

After Akio Morita graduated from University in 1944, he joined in the Navy as a technical junior officer. Sooner, he acquainted Masaru Ibuka who was at the time the engineer worked in the Navy. Despite the fact that, Ibuka was 14 years older than Akio Morita; they formed a friendship and established 40 years partnership with each other, and founded Sony in the future.

After the war was ended in 1945, Akio Morita went home and worked as a teacher in a polytechnic university, physics department. He was happened to see his old friend Ibuka was trying to promote a telecommunication company; he contacted Ibuka immediately, when he walked in the simple and crude office, he felt the great passion for the ...

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...ened the door for Sony to further explode the world. Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka decided to give Tokyo telecommunication Engineering Corporation a new name, so it will sound more multinational and easy to pronounce. Therefore, Tokyo telecommunication Engineering Corporation officially became Sony, which came from Latin word “sonus. ” 2-million pocket transistor radios with Sony trademark on it were sold after first trade in the global market, which generated almost $2.5 million profit for Sony.

After the transistor radio, Sony also developed many first products such as first 8-inch television, first recorder, first Walkman. Sony’s technology and product has changed the meaning of “made in Japan” “made in Japan” means great product, great quality with great services, Sony moved “Made in Japan” from expression of cheap products to high quality and great product