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By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
March 2, 2011
Nobutoshi Kihara, the engineer known as “the wizard of Sony” for his ingenuity in developing products, like Japan’s first tape recorder and transistor radio, and later the Betamax videocassette recorder, that helped propel the company’s rise, died Feb. 13 in Tokyo. He was 84.
Howard Stringer,....
