Akio Morita - Renaming The Company

Time: 1958

Place: Tokyo, Japan

Details: In 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony (derived from "sonus"—–Latin for "sound"—–and Sonny-boys the most common American expression).

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