Sony's Akio Morita Dies at 78 Filed at 1:27 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Politicians and business executives mourned the death of Sony Corp. co-founder Akio Morita on Sunday, lauding the entrepreneur who helped change Japan's image from a maker of slipshod products to world-class manufacturer. ``Morita was a leading figure who played a pivotal role in developing Japan's postwar economy,'' Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was quoted as saying by Kyodo News agency. Morita, whose health had been failing for several years, died Sunday of pneumonia. He was 78. Morita co-founded the electronics giant in a bombed-out department store after World War II. He was the last of a generation of Japanese industrialists that included carmaker Soichiro Honda and electronics rival Konosuke Matsushita. <snipped from full article - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Obit-Morita.html - you'll need a (free) NYT registration to read it though > Can't think of anything to say really - looking at what Sony's achieved in the last 50 years is fantastic. Trying hard at the moment to imagine a world without Trinitron, Walkmans, CDs, 3.5" floppy disks and of course MDs :/ A remarkable man. Simon ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
