Masaru Ibuka was born April 11th, 1908. He was considered an extremely inquisitive child. Not much more of Masaru Ibuka’s childhood experiences are documented as he was born in year 1908.
Masaru Ibuka graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, with the B.S. degree in electrical communications in year 1933. His main thesis was based on an experimental projection-type television system using a “nitro-benzol Kerr cell”, a pair of Nichol's prisms, and a carbon arc with a rotating mirror wheel. He also conducted experiments on Kerr-cell-modulated light-beam channel distant speech communications.
After graduating, Masaru engaged in various companies often revolving the research into the technology of sound recording especially on movie films. He began to make a name for himself In the fall of 1945, when he founded Tokyo-Tsushin Kenkyusho (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory) CO, which in 1946 was merged into the Tokyo-Tsushin-Kogyo Co, the predecessor of the Sony Corporation. Assuming the post of the managing director in the new company, Masaru specialized in telecommunications and educational electronics, as well as in the broadcast studio control, especially magnetic recording equipment. He was elected president of the company in 1950.