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Sony's Who's Who A
work in progress due to the scarcity of the information available,
here are |
| Genji
Ogawa Entered Sony in 1968 ; engaged in mechanical design on tape recorders. |
| Tetsunari
Ogawa Entered Sony in 1978 ; engaged in marketing of system components. |
| Makoto
Chikuchi Professor at the TOKAI University and adviser to Sony about "human, technology and culture". |
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Takashi
Kanai |
| Yoshio
Matsumoto General Audio Business Dept. Engaged in development of NT-1 (starting in 1985), MD Walkman, electric design (audio block) for MZ-1. |
| Masaru
Fujii Home Video Dept. Design Manager of MDP-A1, designing LaserDisc Players since LDP-505. |
| Ichikawa MD project Dept. Personal Audio Design Dept. Joined Sony in 1986, designing radio cassette, headphone & active speakers. |
| Yuuji
Morimiya TV/AV Design Group Joined Sony in the mid 1980s after 5 years at JVC. Designer of CCD-TR55, CCD-M7, CCD-F330 camcorders and of the TA-ER1 masterpiece. Also engaged in TV design. |
| Masao
Morita Head of Audio Business Dept. Entered Sony in 1981, leading Home Audio Business. |
| Gotoh Chief of New Media Design group Joined Sony in 1977, remote controller & personal computer design. |
| Tomomichi
Itoh Managing Director of Sony Digital Products Entered Sony in 1968, designed Liberty series (LBT-715/717) etc. Also leading the products division of Sony Digital Products which currently comprise the R series, ES series and PIXY. |
| Takuyoshi
Kawano Products Communication Group MD design center Manager of AV sector Entered Sony in 1978 and engaged in products design. Design management from 1990, now managing design at Shibaura Technology Centre. |
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Kitukawa |
| Yoshinori
Ichino AV instructor at Personnel Group Marketing Entered Sony in 1952, engaged in audio marketing from 1970. Chief of Technology Information Dept during 1973-79. Commentator at NHK broadcasting as "introduction of audio course". Now part-time adviser to Sony. |
| Maeyama MD project dept. Personal Telecommunication Design dept. Joined Sony in 1988, designing radio category. |
| Nobutosi
KIHARA Chief of Sony Kihara laboratory Born 1926 in Tokyo ; joined Sony as mechanist after graduation from Wasada University. Mr Kihara is able to hear up to 30kHz ! |
| K.
Saitoh Section chief of TV Design group Joined Sony in 1973, TV & Audio design for US market. |
| Masuda Personal Video Group Design manager |
| T.
Saitoh Manager of the Mobile Electronics Design group Designer of Trinitron TVs. |
| Nobuo
SHIKAI Vice-President of Sony (1991) |
| Ogawa Sony Design Centre MD project dept Chief of Product Design Centre Joined Sony in 1969 explaining Sony design policy for "proposing new culture by new product". |
| Hattori TV Design group Joined Sony in 1988, KW-3200HD and TV design. |
| Masaru
Ibuka Sony's founder. |
| Akio
Morita Sony's co-founder. |
| Sumita Designer of camcorder CCD-V90 & CCD-TR1, Walkman WM-2 etc ; from 1993 designing camcorder and VTR. |
| Masaki
Takemura Audio Business HQ Product Planning |
| Keijiro
Maeda
(†) Audio chief engineer Speaker specialist at Sony ; designer of the SS-GR1 and SS-R10. |
| Tadashi
Higuchi Audio Business HQ Active since the pre-Esprit series, responsible for part of the ESPRIT lineup ; supervisor for the "R" series. |
| Akio
Shiraki Product Planning Audio Home AV Dept. Consumer AV Company |
| Nobuo
Minamiyama Audio Business HQ |
| Yoshihisa
Mori Editorial Dept. |
| Katsuyuki
Obata Audio Business HQ Amplifier design (TA-NR1 and TA-NR10) |
| Shiego
Matsumura Sony EMCS TECHAV Design section. In 2003 working under the guidance of Mr Takashi Kanai. |
| Tosio
Iribe Design At Sony since 1976, first at the Design Center, then at Sony Digital Design. Believed to have been the author of the TA-N7 looks (?) ; recently designed the AIBO. |
| Ishikawa Mechanical engineer Part of the 1980s ES staff ; inventor of the "G" (Gibraltar) chassis/material. |
| Heitaro
Nakajima True engineer in audio history (esp. CD). Working for NHK since 1947, then for Sony since 1971. President of Aiwa in 1983, chairman of Japan Audio Society and now chaiman of CD and digital format promoting society. |
| Shigeo
Takahashi Manager, MD Design Center, New Media Design Group Since ES II, and until CD is introduced he designed audio components for 10 years. He designed phones, computers and audio-video components after that. |
| Osamu
Sasago MD Design Center, Shibaura Design Audio Group. Joined Sony in 1985, started designing CD-radio-cassette portables, radio, headphones. Designed 43 cm (face plate size) series audio components and speakers. |
| Shigeyuki
Kakizaki MD Design Center, Shibaura Design Audio Group Joined Sony in 1982, designed TV for 4 years before transferred to audio group. Designed system compo, changer, and car audio prior to the current designing of 43cm series and ES series as a category leader. |
| ... to be continued ... |