Word: masaru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves as happy with their lives. The present undoubtedly looks handsome compared with the bleak aftermath of the war. Many of the men who are now in the middle management of Mitsui and Mitsubishi were babies being fed a grain of rice at a time in 1946. Morita and Masaru Ibuka founded Sony that year by scrounging around the fire-bombed ruins of Tokyo for parts with which to build broadcasting equipment...
...scholars, all college graduates, will study under a total of 44 visiting lecturers, including Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (the only foreigner scheduled), Science Fiction Writer Sakyo Komatsu, Tea Ceremonies Master Soshitsu Sen and Matsushita's electronics competitor Masaru Ibuka, founder of the Sony Corp. After three years of this lecture blizzard, students will be dispatched "to grasp some of the realities of life" in offices and factories and will be sent for six months to a foreign country of their own choosing...