On November 25, 1994, Morita stepped down as Sony chairman after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while playing tennis.

In 1988, Lee made a guest appearance alongside Pat Morita in an episode of the short-lived American television series Ohara playing a villainous character named Kenji.

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.

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.

A sequel to 1984's The Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita reprise their respective roles as young karate student Daniel LaRusso and his mentor Mr. Miyagi.

Pat Morita guest starred near the end of the episode to teach Greg karate for a rematch ; however, as in The Karate Kid, Part II, even the crane kick did not work.

Silver and Kreese scheme to take revenge on Daniel and his teacher, Mr. Miyagi ( Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ), and make Cobra Kai successful once again.

* Noriyuki " Pat " Morita as Keisuke Miyagi

* Keisuke Miyagi from the Karate Kid trilogy, played by Pat Morita.

* Noriyuki " Pat " Morita as former Staff Sergeant Keisuke Miyagi

Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric but kindly and humble Okinawan immigrant named Mr. Miyagi ( Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ).

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 the episode, he is assumed to be Mr. Miyagi, but he immediately denies that by saying, " First of all, I'm Pat F ' in Morita, ya nutsack.

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 ).

* Pat Morita as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi

* Pat Morita as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi ( as Noriyuki ' Pat ' Morita )

* Maximillian Theseira as Secondary Mr. Kesuke Miyagi ( as Noriyuki ' 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.

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.

Morita arranged a deal with Paramount Pictures, who was paying for Chromatic Labs ' development of the Chromatron, taking over the entire project.

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

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.

Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word " sonny ", since they considered themselves to be " sonny boys ", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

Future Happy Days stars Al Molinaro and Pat Morita guest-starred on separate episodes, while young comedian Rich Little made a cameo appearance as himself.

The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts romantic drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki " Pat " Morita and Elisabeth Shue.

* 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 film stars Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki " Pat " Morita and Robyn Lively.

They are for Worst Picture ( Jerry Weintraub ; lost to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), Worst Screenplay ( Robert Mark Kamen ; lost to Harlem Nights by Eddie Murphy ), Worst Director ( John G. Avildsen ; lost to William Shatner for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), Worst Actor ( Ralph Macchio ; lost to William Shatner in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), and Worst Supporting Actor ( Pat Morita ; lost to Christopher Atkins in Listen to Me ).

* June 28 – Pat Morita, Asian-American actor ( The Karate Kid ) ( d. 2005 )

The Next Karate Kid ( aka The Karate Kid Part IV ) is a 1994 American martial arts drama film starring Pat Morita and Hilary Swank.

* Pat Morita ( 1932 – 2005 ), an American actor known for roles on Happy Days and in the Karate Kid movies.

* Pat Morita ( 1932 – 2005 ), an American actor best known for his role in the Karate Kid films.

* Pat Morita as Mr Myagi in Karate Kid III.

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.

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

During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka in the Navy's Wartime Research Committee.

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.

Ibuka was 38 years old, Morita, 25.

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

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.

His successor, Norio Ohga, had joined the company after sending Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of the company's tape recorders.

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 ".

In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron ( 学歴無用論, Never Mind School Records ), where he stresses that school records are not important to success or one's business skills.

In 1986, Morita wrote an autobiography titled Made in Japan.

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 received the International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the University of Manitoba in 1987.

Morita suffered a stroke in 1993, during a game of tennis.

On October 3, 1999, Morita died of pneumonia at the age of 78.

* Morita, Akio.

* Morita, Akio.

* Morita, Akio ( Co-Author ) and Shintaro Ishihara.

* Morita, Toshiro.

Za Taiko: Morita Toshiro Shashin Shu Taiko: The Photos of Toshiro Morita.