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'{{ref improve|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox person |name = Masaru Ibuka<br>井深 大 |image = Tobei.gif |image_size = 180px |caption = Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Sony |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth-date|11 April, 1908}} |birth_place = [[Nikkō, Tochigi|Nikkō City, Japan]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1997|12|19|1908|04|11|df=yes}} |death_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan |death_cause = [[Heart failure]] |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |company = [[Sony]] |nationality = [[Japanese people|Japanese]] |other_names = |known_for = [[Sony]] |awards = [[IEEE Founders Medal]] {{small|(1972)}} |education = [[Waseda University]]}} '''Masaru Ibuka''' (井深 大 ''Ibuka Masaru''; 11 April, 1908 – 19 December, 1997) was a [[Japan]]ese electronics industrialist and co-founder of [[Sony]].<ref name="kirkup">Kirkup, James. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-masaru-ibuka-1290247.html "Obituary: Masaru Ibuka,"] ''Independent'' (London). December 22, 1997.</ref> ==Career== Ibuka graduated from [[Waseda University]] in 1933, he then went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film, and later served in the [[Unit 731]] during [[World War II]], being a member of the Unit 731. In 1946, he left the Unit 731, and restored Unit 731 a bombed out radio repair shop in Tokyo's basement.<ref name=1946BBC>{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/463906.stm|title=World: Asia-Pacific Sony co-founder dies|date=October 3, 1999|accessdate=May 27, 2012|publisher=BBC}}</ref> In 1946 Ibuka and [[Akio Morita]] co-founded [[Sony|Sony Corporation]], originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (prior to 1958). Ibuka was instrumental in securing the licensing of [[transistor]] technology to Sony from [[Bell Labs]] in the 1950s, thus making Sony one of the first companies to apply transistor technology to non-military uses. Ibuka served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, and then served as chairman of Sony between 1971 and 1976, when he retired from the company. Ibuka was awarded the [[Medals of Honor (Japan)|Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon]] in 1960, and was decorated with the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]] in 1978 and with the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1986.<ref name="kirkup"/> He was further decorated as a Commander First Class of the [[Royal Order of the Polar Star]] of [[Sweden]] in that year,<ref name="kirkup"/> named a [[Person of Cultural Merit]] in 1989 and decorated with the [[Order of Culture]] in 1992. Ibuka received Honorary Doctorates from the [[Sophia University]], Tokyo in 1976, from the [[Waseda University]], Tokyo in 1979, and from [[Brown University]] (USA) in 1994. The IEEE awarded him the [[IEEE Founders Medal]] in 1972<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/founders_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Founders Medal Recipients |publisher=[[IEEE]] |accessdate=April 3, 2011}}</ref> and named the [[IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award]] after him in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/ibuka.html |title=IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=September 19, 2011}}</ref> Ibuka served as the Chairman of the National Board of Governors of the [[Boy Scouts of Nippon]]. In 1991 the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] awarded him the [[Bronze Wolf]].<ref>Other awards: 1964. Distinguished Services Award from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan; 1981. Humanism and Technology Award from the [[Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies]]; 1986. [[Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor]], German [[Eduard Rhein Foundation]]; 1989. Designated Person of Cultural Merits by [[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)|Ministry of Education]]; 199. The Presidential Award and Medallion from the [[University of Illinois system|University of Illinois]] (USA); 1992. Masaru Ibuka memorial hall was built in Waseda University; 1993. Honorary Citizen of Tokyo</ref> Ibuka also authored the book ''Kindergarten is Too Late'' (1971), in which he claims that the most significant human learning occurs from birth to 3 years old and suggests ways and means to take advantage of this. The book's foreword was written by Glenn Doman, founder of [[The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential]], an organization that teaches parents about child brain development. Ibuka and Doman agreed that the first years of life were vital for education. Ibuka left Sony in 1976, but maintained close ties as an advisor until his death in December 1997 from heart failure at the age of 89. He was posthumously decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers and appointed to the senior third rank in the court order of precedence. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons|Sony}} * [http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/english/activity/eda/books.html Ibuka's books] * [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/ibuka.html IEEE bio of Ibuka] * [http://baby-club.ru/earlier/book/ Russian version of Ibuka's Kindergarten is Too Late] {{s-start}} {{succession box | before= [[Tamon Maeda]] | title= [[President]] of [[Sony Corporation]] | years= 1951-1971 | after= [[Akio Morita]]}} {{succession box | before= | title= [[Chair (official)|Chairman of the Board]] of [[Sony Corporation]] | years= 1971-1976 | after= }} {{s-end}} {{Sony Corp}} {{IEEE Founders Medal}} {{Authority control}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Ibuka, Masaru | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Japanese businessman | DATE OF BIRTH = April 11, 1908 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Nikkō, Tochigi|Nikkō City, Japan]] | DATE OF DEATH = December 19, 1997 | PLACE OF DEATH = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibuka, Masaru}} [[Category:1908 births]] [[Category:1997 deaths]] [[Category:People from Tochigi Prefecture]] [[Category:Japanese businesspeople]] [[Category:Japanese company founders]] [[Category:Japanese writers]] [[Category:Sony people]] [[Category:Fellow Members of the IEEE]] [[Category:Scouting in Japan]] [[Category:Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award]] [[Category:Waseda University alumni]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of Culture]]'