Nihonbashi area, Tokyo, Japan. Akio Morita joins Masaru Ibuka’s electronics store in Shirokiya to found a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (東京通信工業, Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) with an initial eight employees. The company will build Japan’s first tape recorder, the Type-G. In 1958, the company will change its name to “Sony.”
