The Man Who Engineered Sony
The Quiet Genius Behind Sony’s Greatest Breakthroughs
Every tech story has its public faces.
Sony had its founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita were visionaries of innovation and global ambition. But the man who quietly built the company’s most iconic innovations remains largely unknown.
He never gave interviews or stood on stages. He focused on turning the ideas of Sony’s founding fathers into real products. For decades, he worked inside Sony like a hidden engine, steadily shaping the company’s future one invention at a time.
His name was Nobutoshi Kihara.
Here are the products that defined Sony, all brought to life by one man.
