Queen Elizabeth II has made Akio Morita, the chairman of Sony Corp., an honorary knight.
Morita, 71, was given the award at the British Embassy in Tokyo by Welsh Secretary David Hunt.The knighthood was in recognition of Morita's contributions to British industry, exports and Anglo-Japanese relations.
Morita and fellow engineer Masaru Ibuyka founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. in 1946, adopting the name Sony in 1958.
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In the 1950s, the company bought rights to an American invention called the transistor and went on to shrink all kinds of electronic equipment and build an empire.