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Masaru Ibuka (井深大 Ibuka Masaru, April 11, 1908 in Nikko City, Japan - December 19, 1997 in Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industrialist.

He graduated in 1933 from Waseda University where he earned the nickname "genius inventor." After graduating, he went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film. In 1945, he left the company and founded a radio repair shop in Tokyo. He co-founded Sony Corporation in 1946 (originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation prior to 1958) with Akio Morita. He was instrumental in securing the licensing of transistor technology to Sony from Bell Labs in the 1950's, thus making Sony one of the first companies to apply transistor technology to non-military uses. He served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, and then served as chairman of Sony between 1971 and 1976. He left the company in 1976, but maintained close ties as an advisor until his death in 1997 of a heart attack.

He also authored the book Kindergarten is Too Late (1971), in which he claims that the most significant human learning occurs from ages 9 months to 3 years and suggests ways and means to take advantage of this.

Awards and honors

1960 Awarded Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon from H.M. The Emperor of Japan
1964 Received Distinguished Services Award from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan
1972 Received Founders Medal from IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
1976 Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo
1978 Decorated by H.M. the Emperor of Japan, with the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasures
1979 Honorary Doctor of Science, Waseda University, Tokyo
1981 Received Humanism and Technology Award from the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
1986 Decorated by H.M. the Emperor of Japan, with the First Class Order of the Rising Sun with the GrandCordon
1986 Decorated by H.M. the King of Sweden, with Commander First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star
1986 Awarded Eduard Rhein "Ring of Honor"
1989 Designated Person of Cultural Merits by Ministry of Education
1990 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award named in his honor, see list of recipients
1992 Decorated by H.M. the Emperor of Japan, with Order of Culture
1993 Named Honorary Citizen of Tokyo
1994 Honorary Doctor of Science, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

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