Nobutoshi Kihara, Sony Engineer, Dies at 84 (Published 2011)

Nobutoshi Kihara, the engineer known as “the wizard of Sony” for his ingenuity in developing products, like Japan’s first tape recorder and transistor radio, and later the Betamax videocassette recorder, that helped propel the company’s rise from the ashes of war to become a global electronics giant, died on Feb. 13. He was 84. Howard Stringer, chairman of the Sony Corporation, announced the death

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