Akio Morita helped take a small radio repair shop in a bombed-out Tokyo building and turn it into the powerhouse electronics company, the Sony Corporation. Along with co-founder Masaru Ibuka ...

In 1995, I had a chance to interview Sony CEO Akio Morita, just after he retired. I asked him why Sony bought Columbia Pictures in 1989. Sony was a hardware company, and this did not make sense to ...

In 1946, entrepreneurs Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded a small electronics store in Tokyo called "Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo," ...

The company's connection with Japan dates back to its early years, when Jobs turned to Sony Chairman Morita Akio for inspiration. Dan'l Lewin was working for Sony when he met Jobs in April 1977.

They needed a new name. Ibuka and his partner Akio Morita thought and thought. First, they found a latin word sonus meaning "sound." That was a good start. At the time, bright young men were ...