Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

On May 7, 1946, Morita and Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha ( Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Corporation ) with about 20 employees and initial capital of ¥ 190, 000.

However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a " pocket sized " appearance.

In his capacity as the head of psychiatry for a large Tokyo hospital, Morita began developing his methods while working with sufferers of shinkeishitsu, or anxiety disorders with a hypochondriac base.

Dr. Reynolds synthesized parts of Morita Therapy along with the practice of Naikan into Constructive Living, an educational method intended for English speaking Westerners.

* Chiaki Morita, Japanese-Filipina International Model, FHM Magazine Model 2011, Tanduay Liquor Calendar Babe 2012, Taekwondo 2nd Dan Blackbelter and member of Philippine Taekwondo Demo Team prior to flying with Zest Air

She goes on a train that doesn't stop, sitting next to with The Goat, and opposite The Gentleman in the Paper Suit ( Steve Allen ), and The Horse ( Pat Morita ).

* Adventure Quiz 2: Capcom World ( 1990 ) – with Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Manami Matsumae, Junko Tamiya, H. Takaoka, and G. Morita ( uncredited )

In this sense we say that 2 groupoids and are Morita equivalent iff there exists a third groupoid together with 2 Morita morphisms from G to K and H to K. Transitivity is an interesting construction in the category of groupoid principal bundles and left to the reader.

In 1989, shortly after losing a highly contested race for the party presidency, Ishihara came to the attention of the West through his book,, co-authored with Sony chairman Akio Morita.

* ' Nō ' to ieru Nihon (「 NO 」 と言える日本 )， The Japan That Can Say No ( in collaboration with Akio Morita ), 1989.

Although he had been using the name " Pat Morita " for years, producer Jerry Weintraub suggested that Pat be billed with his given name to sound more ethnic.

* Archive of American Television oral history interview with Pat Morita

She played in San Diego, but was defeated in three tight sets to Ayumi Morita with her 15 double faults being highlighted as the main concern for the match.

Link's Awakening began as an unsanctioned side project ; programmer Kazuaki Morita created a Zelda-like game with one of the first Game Boy development kits, and used it to experiment with the platform's capabilities.

Nelson began 1990s with a starring role opposite Max von Sydow in the World War II drama Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes ( 1990 ); the film focuses on the horror of the Hiroshima bombing ; it co-stars Mako Iwamatsu and Pat Morita.

Many of the plots revolved around silly action genre clichés and movie parodies, with many of the feature roles played by actors and celebrities such as Mark Hamill, Alan Thicke, Erik Estrada, Gary Coleman, John Salley, Joey Buttafuoco, Patty Hearst, Adam Carolla, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, George Takei, Gilbert Gottfried, Walter Koenig, Pat Morita, Anson Williams, Christopher Darden, Maureen McCormick, Lee Majors, David Arquette, Musetta Vander, Angelica Bridges, Ian Ziering, RuPaul, and Dweezil Zappa.

Okinawa was also the setting for the 1986 film The Karate Kid, Part II where Mr Miyagi ( Pat Morita ) returns home to Okinawa with his student Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio ).

On February 11, 2005 it was merged with the neighboring villages of Shariki, Kashiwa, Inagaki and Morita to form the new town of Tsugaru, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On February 11, 2005 it was merged with the neighboring villages of Shariki, Inagaki and Morita ) and the town of Kizukuri to form the new town of Tsugaru, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

* DC Comics granted Columbia Pictures permission to use the " Karate Kid " name for a series of successful movies starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.

The prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips.

It revitalized the acting career of Morita, previously known mostly for his comedic role as Arnold on Happy Days, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance as Mr. Miyagi.

In 1961 a Sony delegation was visiting the IEEE trade show in New York City, including Ibuka, Akio Morita ( Sony's other co-founder ) and Nobutoshi Kihara, who was promoting his new CV-2000 home video tape recorder.

Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ( June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005 ) was an American actor of Japanese descent who was well known for playing the roles of Matsuo " Arnold " Takahashi on Happy Days and Mr. Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.

Morita gained worldwide fame playing wise karate teacher Keisuke Miyagi who taught young " Daniel-san " ( Ralph Macchio ) in The Karate Kid.

* Brindo ( Junpei Morita )-He is an escaped prisoner who highjacked The Orion and crashed to the same island as Luna and the crew.

also known as Mr. Miyagi, or referred to as " 宮城成義 " in kanji in The Karate Kid, Part II, is a fictional karate master, played by the late Japanese-American actor Pat Morita, who mentors the characters Daniel LaRusso and Julie Pierce in the Karate Kid films.

Kyohei Morita ( 森田恭平 ) ( born 6 February 1984 ) is a Japanese rugby union footballer who made his international debut as a fly half with the Japan national rugby union team in 2004.

Among the notables he beat during that span were Ken Morita, who later became a respected boxing official and who was beaten by Harada on June 26 in the first round, and future world champion Hiroyuki Ebihara, who was undefeated in nine fights before meeting Harada and who was beaten by Harada on December 24, by a decision in six rounds.

It is not unusual that Morita, who lived in New York for some time and was one of the most successful and famous businessmen in Japanese history, would have many opinions on U. S. business culture.

Yūta Takemoto, Takumi Mayama and Shinobu Morita are three young men who live in the same apartment complex and are students at an art college in Tokyo.

Akio Morita was born in the village of Kosugaya, Japan.

Ibuka was 38 years old, Morita, 25.

Morita was an advocate for all the products made by the Sony Corporation.

Morita was vice chairman of the Keidanren ( Japan Federation of Economic Organizations ), and was a member of the Japan-U. S. Economic Relations Group, also known as the " Wise Men's Group ".

The book was translated into English and caused controversy in the United States, and Morita later had has chapters removed from the English version and distanced himself from the book.

Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.

Morita Masatake ( 1874-1938 ), also read as Morita Shoma ( 1874-1938 ( 森田 正馬 ), was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and the founder of Morita Therapy, a branch of clinical psychology strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism.

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The first commercial stevia sweetener in Japan was produced by the Japanese firm Morita Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd. in 1971.

It was a commercial success upon release, and garnered favorable critical acclaim, earning Pat Morita an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

With Season 4, Al Molinaro was added as Al Delvecchio, the new owner of Arnold's, after Pat Morita's character of Arnold moved on after his character got married ( Morita had left the program to star in a short-lived sitcom of his own, Mr. T and Tina, which was actually a spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter.

Also leaving Happy Days in Season 10 for Joanie Loves Chachi was Al Delvecchio ; Pat Morita returned to the cast as Arnold in his absence.

He quickly brought Morita and Ibuka to see the design, and Morita was " sold " on the spot.