Nobutoshi Kihara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese electronics engineer
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Nobutoshi Kihara
- Nobutoshi Kihara (?? ?? Kihara Nobutoshi, 14 October 1926 – 13 February 2011) was an engineer at Sony, best known for his work on the original Walkman cassette-tape player in the 1970s and was commonly called Mr.
- Walkman in the press. Born in Tokyo, Kihara attended Waseda University, then joined Sony's predecessor, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation in 1947 as a new university graduate.
- He retired from Sony in 2006.While at Sony, he worked on Japan's first magnetic tape recorders, portable tape recorders, music stereo systems, Betamax video, digital cameras, a compact cassette magazine-type recorder and Japan's first transistor radio.
- In 1964, a team led by Kihara developed the CV-2000, the world's first VTR intended for home usage.
- He also was instrumental in creating cassette versions of the VTR (Video Tape Recorder),established the basis for the U-matic system.
- In 1981, was involved in the development of the Mavica digital still camera, which used floppy disks to record images and developed the Mavigraph color video printer in 1982. In 1988, Mr.
- Kihara jointly established the Sony-Kihara Research Center with Sony, becoming the center's president.
- His tutoring methods were dubbed the "Kihara School", and turned out many of Sony's future engineers. Masaru Ibuka, a Sony co-founder, referred to Mr.
- Kihara as "a godlike person", because he would create a prototype of a concept he and Mr.
- Ibuka had discussed, often within a day. Nobutoshi Kihara died at 5:20 am on 13 February 2011, due to heart failure.
- He was 84.
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