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Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate that develops, designs, manufactures, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and components. It is a global leader in consumer electronics and is known for its products, including televisions, digital cameras, smartphones, and hearables. It is also associated with its gaming brand PlayStation, which is known for its home video game consoles.

With some 900 million devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth.

In 1946, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, The predecessor of Sony Group Corporation) started as a small company with capital of just 190,000 yen and approximately 20 employees. Founder Masaru Ibuka said the purpose of setting up the company was to “establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open mindedness that will, through technology, contribute to Japanese culture.” Symbolizing Sony’s spirit of challenge to “do what has never been done before,” the company has continued to release countless “Japan’s first” and “world’s first” products. Founder Masaru Ibuka drew up the Founding Prospectus of Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation in January 1946. It is still handed down as the origin of the Group.

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