Sony
Japanese corporation
Alternative Titles:
Sony Corporation, Sony KK, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Totsuko
Sony, in full Sony Corporation, major Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics products. It also was involved in films, music, and financial services, among other ventures.
The company was incorporated by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (“Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation”). Ibuka, whose Japan Precision Instruments Company had supplied electronic devices during World War II, and Morita, an applied sciences instructor, had met during World War II as engineers designing heat-seeking missiles for the Imperial Japanese Army. Ibuka and Morita worked together for the next 40 years in what has been called one of “business history’s …(100 of 1095 words)
