Editing Sony (section)

===Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo===
[[File:Sony-1945-rice-cooker-2.jpg|thumb|left|Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s.<ref>{{cite news |title=It all began with a failed rice cooker – a glimpse at Sony's history |url=https://www.gsmarena.com/it_all_began_with_a_failed_rice_cooker__a_glimpse_at_sonys_history-blog-13661.php |website=GSMArena.com |date=December 21, 2023 |publisher=GSMArena.com |access-date=December 21, 2023 |archive-date=2023-12-21  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221215707/https://www.gsmarena.com/it_all_began_with_a_failed_rice_cooker__a_glimpse_at_sonys_history-blog-13661.php |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, [[Masaru Ibuka]] started an electronics shop in Shirokiya,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sundberg |first=Stephen |date=18 September 2016 |title=Shirokiya Department Store, c. 1910–1940. &#124; Old Tokyo |url=http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-department-store/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918035310/http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-dept-store.php |archive-date=18 September 2012 |access-date=5 November 2020 |website=Old Tokyo |language=en-us}}</ref> a department store building in the [[Nihonbashi]] area of [[Tokyo]]. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000<!--, or in USD $1,666.39{{clarification needed |date=July 2017}} // No true exchange rate before 1949. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen#Fixed_value_of_the_yen_to_the_U.S._dollar --><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sony Global – History |url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/ |access-date=7 July 2017 |website=www.sony.net |language=en |archive-date=2021-02-09  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209164449/https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and a total of eight employees.<ref name="Nobuo">{{Cite news |last=Nobuo Abiko |date=26 March 1966 |title=Pioneering firm upsets Japan hiring: Pattern broken |page=14 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |via=ProQuest}}</ref> On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by [[Akio Morita]] to establish a company called {{nihongo|Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo|東京通信工業|Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō|Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation}}.<ref name="History">{{Cite web |title=Sony Global&nbsp;– Sony History |url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/1-01.html |access-date=16 February 2007 |archive-date=2021-01-22  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122131354/https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/1-01.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The company built Japan's first [[tape recorder]], called the Type-G.<ref name=History/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Neate |first=Rupert |date=1 December 2014 |title=A history of Sony's successes and failures |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/13/sony-successes-failures-inventions-walkman-music |access-date=22 April 2019 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=2020-12-01  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201044041/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/13/sony-successes-failures-inventions-walkman-music |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chang |first=Sea-Jin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blWb6tslZb8C&q=In+1958+sony&pg=PT19 |title=Sony vs Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics Giants' Battle For Global Supremacy |date=25 February 2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9780470830444 |language=en |access-date=2020-10-20  |archive-date=2023-12-30  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230025243/https://books.google.com/books?id=blWb6tslZb8C&q=In+1958+sony&pg=PT19#v=snippet&q=In%201958%20sony&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>