![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In May 1946, a year after the end of World War II, when he was just 25, he cofounded Sony’s forerunner, Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) together with the 38-year-old Ibuka Masaru. This year marks the centenary of the birth of the late Morita Akio, born January 26, 1921. No doubt Morita was one of the greatest symbols of the miracle Vogel wrote about. Vogel was best-known for his 1979 book Japan As Number One, which analyzed Japan’s miraculous postwar economic growth. Just a year earlier, in an interview with Mainichi newspaper’s Economist magazine, he lamented contemporary Japan’s loss of “hunger.” He spoke of the passing of the prominent entrepreneurs of postwar Japan, including Morita Akio, Honda Sōichirō, and Panasonic’s Matsushita Kōnosuke. In December 2020, Ezra Vogel, famed US Japanologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University, passed away. A Symbol of Japan’s Postwar Economic Miracle ![]()
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