• Norio Ohga (大賀 典雄, Ōga Norio), otherwise spelled Norio Oga (January 29, 1930 – April 23, 2011), was the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation...
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    as CBS/Sony Records and with Sony co-founder Akio Morita as president. Norio Ohga, who himself was a musician, was part of the management team from the...
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    Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others). Norio Ohga, who had joined the company in the 1950s after sending Morita a letter...
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  • physician and geneticist Norio Nishiyama, Japanese mixed martial artist Norio Ohga (大賀 典雄, 1930–2011), Japanese chief executive Norio Omura (小村 徳男, born 1969)...
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    stroke sidelined former chairman Akio Morita, Sony CEO and new chairman Norio Ohga selected Idei to be the next president, a choice that raised eyebrows...
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    "Philips Introduce Compact Disc" in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sony executive Norio Ohga, later CEO and chairman of Sony, and Heitaro Nakajima were convinced of...
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    "Philips Introduce Compact Disc" in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sony executive Norio Ohga, later CEO and chairman of Sony, and Heitaro Nakajima were convinced of...
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    concluded. "The company's best days are behind it." Around that time, Norio Ohga took up the role of president. He encouraged the development of the compact...
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    music while traveling for business. He asked executive deputy president Norio Ohga to design a playback-only stereo version optimized for walking. The metal-cased...
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    they discovered the project; though Kutaragi was nearly fired, then-CEO Norio Ohga intervened in support of the project and gave him permission to complete...
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    fired because he worked with Nintendo without Sony's knowledge, president Norio Ohga recognised the potential in Kutaragi's chip and decided to keep him as...
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    nuclear disasters. Masaru Ibuka Kaoru Inoue Kazuo Imai Keiichi Ishizaka Norio Ohga Eishiro Saito Hiroko Sakai Nobuchika Sugimura Shoichiro Toyoda Yoshikazu...
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    glasses, went to court last week for a divorce from his Japanese bosses, Norio Ohga, below left, and Akio Morita. No matter who wins, writes Nigel Cope, the...
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    Peter Guber and Jon Peters to be its co-chairmen. This was all led by Norio Ohga, who was the president and CEO of Sony during that time. The hiring of...
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  • companies. The breaking of the partnership infuriated Sony President Norio Ohga, who responded by appointing Kutaragi with the responsibility of developing...
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  • approve of the project, but Kutaragi found support in Sony executive Norio Ohga and the project was allowed to continue. The success of the project spurred...
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    Table Tennis player Yamada Nagamasa – Sengoku period merchant-adventurer Norio Ohga – former CEO of Sony Tomoyoshi Murayama – artist and playwright Masato...
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    body of the machine. Both Goto and Kutaragi recalled that Sony president Norio Ohga showed a special interest in the development of the controller, and strongly...
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    "Philips Introduce Compact Disc" in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sony executive Norio Ohga, later CEO and chairman of Sony, and Heitaro Nakajima were convinced of...
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    Eiji Aonuma (video game designer) Li Zuixiong (conservation scientist) Norio Ohga (former president of Sony / singer / conductor) Rin' (pop group) Masaki...
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    grand ceremony with more music – this time with Sony's Japanese chairman Norio Ohga himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. A keen lover of...
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    Japanese joint venture which became highly profitable under Akio Morita and Norio Ohga. Yetnikoff forged a close and lucrative working partnership with Sony...
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    Associate Conductor: Min Chung Permanent Honorary Member and Conductor Laureate: Norio Ohga "Japan Times" "TPO Concerts" Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra v t e...
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    other projects and giving the PowerBook 100 top priority. Sony president Norio Ohga gave project manager Kihey Yamamoto permission to recruit engineers from...
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    Lt Gen Sir James Wolfe Murray, 1918 Nakamura Utaemon VI, awarded 1996 Norio Ohga, awarded 2001 Henry Francis Oliver (1865–1965), awarded 1917 Radhabinod...
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    When they found out, Sony's executives were furious. Only with Sony CEO Norio Ohga's approval was Kutaragi able to complete the chip and keep his job. Even...
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  • painter. Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed. Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure...
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  • January 20 – Sadateru Arikawa, aikido teacher (d. 2003) January 29 – Norio Ohga, businessman and CEO of Sony (d. 2011) April 23 – Shun Akiyama, literary...
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  • 2003: Jorma Ollila 2002: James C. Morgan 2001: Charles M. Geschke 2000: Norio Ohga 1999: No Award 1998: Pavaguda V. Indiresan 1998: Sheila E. Widnall 1997:...
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  • the CEO Special Recognition Award presented by Sony Chairman and CEO Norio Ohga. In 2002, Handlin was appointed to chair the Sony Music International...
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