Sony history.

Tokyo Tsushin

Kogyo K.K., founded in 1946 (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Group Corporation) began as a modest business with just 190,00

0 yen in funding and about 20 workers.

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

release numerous "Japan's first" and "world's first" products. The company's foun

der, Masaru Ibuka, stated that the goal of setting up the business was to "establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open mindedness that will, through technology, contribute to Japanese culture." Founder Masaru Ibuka drew up the Founding Pr

ospectus of Tokyo Telecommunicatio

ns Engineering Corporation in January 1946.

It is still handed down as the origin of the Sony Group.