Sony Corporation

In 1946, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the predecessor of Sony)

started as a small company with capital of just 190,000 yen and approximately 20 employees.

Founder Masaru Ibuka said the purpose of setting up the company was to "establish an ideal factory

that stresses a spirit of freedom and open mindedness that will, through technology, contribute to Japanese culture."

Symbolizing Sony's spirit of challenge to "do what has never been done before,"

the company has continued to release countless "Japan's first" and "world's first" products.

In 1958, Name changed from Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. to Sony Corporation and expanded globally. In 1960 Sony Corporation of America (SCA) established in the US and few years later, Sony Building opened in Ginza, Tokyo and also became the first Japanese company to have shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Sony Corporation was involved in many joint venture as the company gradually expand globally.