Sony Founded in a Bombed-Out Department Store with 20 Employees
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita launch Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering from a makeshift workshop in war-torn Tokyo, starting with just twenty employees and a handful of rice cookers. This humble beginning eventually births the global electronics giant Sony, fundamentally changing how the world consumes music, film, and technology over the next seven decades.
May 7, 1946
80 years ago
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