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...vinyl or 8-tracks. On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case. It even had a second earphone jack so that two people could listen in at once. Masaru Ibuka, Sony's co-founder, traveled often for business and would find himself lugging Sony's bulky TC-D5 cassette recorder around to listen to music. He asked Norio Ohga, then Executive Deputy President, to design a playback-only stereo version, optimized for use with headphones. Ibuka brought the result...
...promises regarding negotiations with the North. In the meantime, the general public continues to rally behind the abductees' families, who insist that Japan continue to hold the line. "I want to know why this happened, where she is and how I can help to bring her home," says Masaru Honma, whose younger sister, Megumi Yokota, was kidnapped in 1977 at age 13. "The fact that they sent us a stamped death certificate is proof to me that she is still alive...
...Actually, someone does know: Masaru Kida, of the global meteorological agency Weathernews. Kida is in charge of predicting when the cherry trees across Japan will begin their annual spring blossoming, or sakura - the cue for millions of Japanese office workers to crowd city parks for boisterous sakura parties, or hanami. There, they'll savor the beauty and brevity of the delicate pink blossoms, so much like life itself, by getting extremely drunk...
...Founded by two close friends, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, in 1946, the company rapidly developed a reputation for high-quality, well-designed radios, tape recorders and TVs. You can even claim that with the introduction in 1979 of the Walkman-the device that enabled millions to listen to music while commuting to work or jogging-Sony all but invented multitasking, that combined benefit and scourge of modern life. Along the way, Sony's founders managed to pull off a difficult double act. On the one hand, they recognized that if the company was to grow to its full potential...
...Japanese company to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management structure with a board that comprised insider and independent directors alike. "Sony is a global enterprise, so it was expected that at some point a foreigner would become CEO," says Masaru Kaneko, a professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo. Stringer himself says that approximately 70% of the company's stock is owned by foreigners, and points out that Ryoji Chubachi, appointed to be his president, lived in Alabama and speaks English with a Southern accent. (For that matter, Idei...