FILE: CO-FOUNDER OF JAPAN'S SONY CORPORATION AKIO MORITA DIES AGED 79

Record ID: 922383

  • Title: FILE: CO-FOUNDER OF JAPAN'S SONY CORPORATION AKIO MORITA DIES AGED 79
  • Date: 1st October 1999
  • Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TRADE FAIR WITH SONY PRODUCTS INCLUDING WALKMAN (4 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2005 19:24
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN/ NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Business,Industry,Technology
  • Reuters ID: LVABPPQ89LXUO8RDNGW42899A9JP
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  • Story Text: Akio Morita, co-founder of Japan's Sony Corporation and the man who gave the world the Walkman, has died.He was
    Akio Morita fell seriously ill in 1993 after collapsing while playing tennis at his second home in Hawaii.
    He was later diagnosed with a brain haemorrhage and returned to Tokyo earlier last month.
    He died on Sunday (October 3) at the age of 78.
    The news was released by the Kyodo news agency who made no mention of the cause of death.
    Responsible for some of Sony's most successful innovations and its marketing brains, Morita was a high-profile envoy for Japan Inc at the peak of its global presence in the 1980s.
    Born the heir to one of Japan's oldest sake-brewing families, Morita declined to take over the family business and, together with inventor Masaru Ibuka, in 1946 founded the firm that was to become a world electronic and entertainment giant.
    First called Tokyo Tsushin Denki, the company was rechristened "Sony" -- from the Latin "sonus" for sound -- in 1958."We wanted a new name that could be recognised anywhere in the world, one that could be pronounced the same in any language," Morita wrote in his book "Made in Japan".
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