Sony Corporation is a multinational company corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.Sony's headquarters moved to Minato, Tokyo from Shinagawa, Tokyo around the end of 2006.Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video games, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments—electronics, games, entertainment, financial services and other. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. The company's slogan is Sony. Like no other
In 1945, after World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out department store building in Nihonbashi of Tokyo. The company built Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G. Japan's first commercially produced transistor radio, In August 1955.In May 1956, the company released the featured an innovative slim design and sound quality capable of rivaling portable tube radios.The following year, 1957, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering came out with the smallest transistor radio in commercial production. It was a worldwide commercial success. By the mid 1950s, American teens had begun buying portable transistor radios in huge numbers, helping to propel the fledgling industry from an estimated 100,000 units in 1955 to 5,000,000 units by the end of 1968.
