"I consider him one of the people who brought Japan back from where it was in the '40s and created a new industrial concept," said Henry A. Morita's company created tens of thousands of jobs at home in the wake of the World War II defeat and helped turn the words "Made in Japan" into a symbol of unsurpassable quality. Morita helped create "personal electronics," with products falling in price, weight and size even as they rose in capability.Īlong the way, Mr. Drawing on new technology and marketing concepts, Mr.
Morita and Sony helped hook the planet on one new electronic product after another - the tape recorder, the transistor radio, the VCR, the Walkman, the compact disc.īefore Sony came on the scene, consumer electronics meant large, expensive units with wooden cabinets in affluent homes. In 1946, with $500 in capital, Sony began life in a Tokyo building that still bore the scorches of wartime fires. and principal matchmaker in the world's love affair with consumer electronics, died yesterday of pneumonia in Tokyo at the age of 78.
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