Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the , which is engaged in business through its four operating components: electronics (AV, IT & communication products, semiconductors, video games, network services and medical business), motion pictures (movies and TV shows), music (record labels and music publishing) and financial services (banking and insurance). These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures, Sony Mobile, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music, Sony Financial Holdings and others.

Sony is among the semiconductor sales leaders and as of 2016, the fifth-largest television manufacturer in the world after Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, TCL and Hisense.

The company's current slogan is "BE MOVED". Their former slogans were "make.believe" (20092014), "like.no.other" (20052009), "The One and Only" (19801982) and "It's a Sony" (19822002).

Sony has a weak tie to the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.

Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company started with a capital of 190,000 and a total of eight employees. In May 1946, Ibuka was joined by Akio Morita to found a company called "Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo" (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony".

1. What type of buisness is Sony?
2. What do they lead in with sales?
3. as of when?
4. Are they a large manufactur?
5. of what?
6. where do they rank?
7. how many operating componets do they have?
8. what does this make them?
9. in the US only?
10. Does the buisness have other facets?
11. how many are mentioned?
12. Do they have a slogan?
13. what is it?
14. what was it 1982?
15. Does it have strong ties with SMFG?
16. What does SMFG stand for?
17. and they are?
18. What did the company buikd the first of in Japan?
19. named?
20. when did they change their name?

Numbered answers:
1. electronics
2. semiconductor
3. 2016
4. yes
5. television
6. fifth-largest
7. Four
8. one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies
9. no
10. yes
11. Six
12. yes
13. "BE MOVED"
14. "It's a Sony"
15. no
16. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
17. the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.
18. tape recorder
19. Type-G
20. 1958