Akio Morita
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Economics
- Subcategories: Business, Trade, Commerce, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories
- Curriculum: Asian History
Article abstract: Together with his mentor and business partner, Masaru Ibuka, Morita turned a tiny precision-instrument factory into the Sony Corporation, one of the largest industrial firms in the world and home of one of the best-known brand names in the world of business.
Early Life
Akio Morita was born in 1921 of a prominent family in Nagoya, the fifteenth-generation heir to one of Japan’s oldest sake-brewing families. He grew up in an affluent household that mixed native traditions with an easy familiarity with Western ways. While the family was...
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