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Sony's The Tokyo Matrix entertainment facility

Photo shows Sony Group Corp.'s The Tokyo Matrix entertainment facility in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 17, 2025.

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Sony headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2024, shows the logo of Sony Group Corp. at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.

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Sony headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2024, shows the logo of Sony Group Corp. at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.

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Sony headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2024, shows Sony Group Corp.'s headquarters in Tokyo.

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Sony headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2024, shows Sony Group Corp.'s headquarters in Tokyo.

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Ginza Sony Park

Sony Corp. unveils to the media the recently completed Ginza Sony Park building in Tokyo's Ginza area on Aug. 23, 2024. The nine-story building with a total floor space of 4,390 square meters, including four basements, will open to the public in January 2025.

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Ginza Sony Park

Sony Corp. unveils to the media the recently completed Ginza Sony Park building in Tokyo's Ginza area on Aug. 23, 2024. The nine-story building with a total floor space of 4,390 square meters, including four basements, will open to the public in January 2025.

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Sony Group CEO Yoshida

Sony Group Corp. CEO Kenichiro Yoshida speaks at a briefing in Tokyo on May 23, 2024, about the company's strategic direction.

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TSMC opens 1st Japan chip plant

(From L, front row) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. CEO C.C. Wei, Sony Group CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda and Denso Corp. President Shinnosuke Hayashi are pictured after the opening ceremony for TSMC's first factory in Japan on Feb. 24, 2024, in Kikuyo in Kumamoto Prefecture.

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Home appliance expo in Shanghai

Photo taken on April 27, 2023, shows a Sony Corp. booth at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo 2023 that began in Shanghai the same day.

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Sony signs sponsorship with World Athletics

Sony Group Corp. President Hiroki Totoki (2nd from L) and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe (3rd from L) pose for a photo in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024, after Sony reached a three-year sponsorship deal with the world body ahead of the world athletics championships in Tokyo in September 2025.

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Sony signs sponsorship with World Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024, after the international body reached a three-year sponsorship deal with Sony Group Corp. ahead of the world athletics championships in Tokyo in September 2025.

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Sony signs sponsorship with World Athletics

Sony Group Corp. President Hiroki Totoki speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024, after Sony reached a three-year sponsorship deal with the World Athletics ahead of the world athletics championships in Tokyo in September 2025.

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Sony signs sponsorship with World Athletics

Sony Group Corp. President Hiroki Totoki (L) and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe shake hands during a signing ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024, after Sony reached a three-year sponsorship deal with the world body ahead of the world championships in Tokyo in September 2025.

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Sony signs sponsorship with World Athletics

Sony Group Corp. President Hiroki Totoki (L) and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe shake hands during a signing ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024, after Sony reached a three-year sponsorship deal with the world body ahead of the world championships in Tokyo in September 2025.

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Toyota, Sony, Panasonic heads

(from L) Toyota Motor Corp. President Koji Sato, Sony Group Corp. CEO Hiroki Totoki and Panasonic Holdings Corp. President Masahiro Shinada attend an innovation forum at Tokyo's Waseda University -- their alma mater -- on Nov. 10, 2023.

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Sony-Honda venture unveils new EV prototype

Sony Honda Mobility Inc. unveils a prototype of the new Afeela electric vehicle to the media in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023. The joint venture of Honda Motor Co. and Sony Group Corp. will begin accepting orders in the first half of 2025 for delivery in the spring of 2026 in North America and by the end of 2026 in Japan.

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Sony-Honda venture unveils new EV prototype

Sony Honda Mobility Inc. unveils a prototype of the new Afeela electric vehicle to the media in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023. The joint venture of Honda Motor Co. and Sony Group Corp. will begin accepting orders in the first half of 2025 for delivery in the spring of 2026 in North America and by the end of 2026 in Japan.

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Home appliance expo in Shanghai

Photo taken on April 27, 2023, shows a Sony Corp. booth at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo 2023 that began in Shanghai the same day.

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Former Sony Chairman Hirai

Former Sony Corp. Chairman Kazuo Hirai gives a speech in the central Japan city of Gifu on Feb. 9, 2023.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki, executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Kenichiro Yoshida.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki, executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Kenichiro Yoshida.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki (R), executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., shakes hands with President Kenichiro Yoshida during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said at the press conference that he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Yoshida.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki (R), executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., shakes hands with President Kenichiro Yoshida during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said at the press conference that he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Yoshida.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki (back), executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., is pictured ahead of a joint press conference with President Kenichiro Yoshida (front) in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said at the press conference that he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Yoshida.

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Sony's new president

Hiroki Totoki (back), executive deputy president and chief financial officer of Sony Group Corp., is pictured ahead of a joint press conference with President Kenichiro Yoshida (front) in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2023. Totoki said at the press conference that he will head the electronics company from April 1, replacing Yoshida.

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Sony unveils touch-screen Walkman with clearer color display

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. unveiled new touch-screen Walkman X-series digital music players on April 14. The new NW-X1000 series, which has a 3-inch clearer organic light-emitting diode display, has a string of new features including Wi-Fi wireless Internet access and a menu featuring a connection to the YouTube video streaming site.

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Sony's egg-shaped stereo 'dances,' emits light to tune of music

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Sept. 10 it will market on Sept. 29 the ''Rolly,'' a palm-size, egg-shaped music player that ''dances'' and emits light to the tune of the music, employing the company's electronic know-how for music analysis.

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Sony's egg-shaped stereo 'dances,' emits light to tune of music

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Sept. 10 it will market on Sept. 29 the ''Rolly,'' a palm-size, egg-shaped music player that ''dances'' and emits light to the tune of the music, employing the company's electronic know-how for music analysis.

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Sony to release new Alpha 700 digital SLR camera in November

TOKYO, Japan - Models pose with Sony Corp.'s new digital single-lens reflex camera Alpha 700 during a presentation in Tokyo on Sept. 6. The Alpha 700 is equipped with a newly developed 12.24-megapixel CMOS sensor, called Exmor, enabling users to capture sharp images at around five frames per second.

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Sony to introduce 15 new LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Aug. 29 it will soon introduce 15 new Bravia liquid crystal display televisions including a 70-inch one, the largest LCD TV for consumers in Japan. Of the 15 new TVs, 11 will be put on sale on Sept. 20, including the popular 46-inch model that is expected to sell for 400,000 to 500,000 yen.

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Sony to introduce 15 new LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Aug. 29 it will soon introduce 15 new Bravia liquid crystal display televisions including a 70-inch one (shown in photo), the largest LCD TV for consumers in Japan.

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Robot dog Aibo

TOKYO, Japan, July 19 Kyodo - Sony Corp.'s new artificial intelligence-equipped Aibo robot dog is displayed at a Sony store in Tokyo on July 19, 2018, the day Sony started accepting orders.

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Sony expects 82.4% drop in net profit on write-down in movie business

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 2 Kyodo - Kenichiro Yoshida, chief financial officer of Sony Corp., briefs reporters on the company's group financial results from April to December last year during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2017.

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Sony to spin off camera businesses

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - File photo taken in March 2015 shows the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo. Sony said on Oct. 26, 2016, that it will spin off its camera businesses into a separate entity as part of efforts to increase its operational efficiency.

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Sony to launch new high-end Walkman music player next month

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Sony Corp.'s new high-end Walkman portable music player model featuring "high-resolution" sound. Sony said on Jan. 15, 2015, it will begin selling the NW-ZX2 model, which has a new frame using copper sheet and aluminum, and controls sound distortion owing to improved circuits, on Feb. 14 with a price tag of around 130,000 yen.

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Sony Pres. Hirai talks about cyberattack

LAS VEGAS, United States - Sony Corp. President Kazuo Hirai (L) speaks at a press conference in Las Vegas, where he was attending the International Consumer Electronics Show, on Jan. 6, 2015. Regarding the cyberattack in 2014 against Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony's movie studio, Hirai said the company was unable to block it because it was a type never experienced before.

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Sony develops eyewear-use compact attachable display module

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a compact single-lens display module developed by Sony Corp. and attached to eyewear, unveiled by the company on Dec. 17, 2014. If a user is playing golf or cycling, for example, sunglasses equipped with the new device connected to a smartphone can provide information such as course maps or distance readings, according to Sony.

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Ex-Sony engineer explains advanced planetarium projector

TOKYO, Japan - Takayuki Ohira, a former Sony Corp. engineer, stands behind a high-performance projector in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2014. The projector is used in the Ohira-produced Sound Planetarium 2014 (Nov. 7 - Dec. 25), utilizing High Resolution audio, at the Sony Building in Tokyo.

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Sony's mobile business to reduce costs by 30% by March 2017

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroki Totoki, president of Sony Mobile Communications Inc., speaks at a meeting with investors and analysts in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 25, 2014. Totoki, who assumed the post on Nov. 16, said Sony Corp.'s mobile communication business aims to cut costs by 30 percent by March 2017 to meet its goal of turning the money-losing segment to profitability.

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Sony CEO vows to focus on profitability

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive of Sony Corp., addresses a meeting with investors and analysts in Tokyo, on Nov. 18, 2014. He said the company will focus on profitability rather than sales volume to return to the black in the next business year.

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Sony posts far wider 1st-half net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014. Sony reported a net loss of 109.16 billion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, compared to a loss of 16.50 billion yen in the same period last year.

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Sony's perfume-bottle shaped 'selfie camera'

SHANGHAI, China - A woman holds Sony Corp.'s KW1, a compact digital camera that looks like a perfume bottle featuring functions to take self-portraits, at a trade show held by Sony in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 24, 2014.

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Sony launches 4K home projector in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken in New York on Sept. 30, 2014, shows an image projected on a wall by a family-use "4k" projector (bottom) launched in the United States the same day by Japan's Sony Corp. Priced at $50,000, the 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector is capable of casting images up to 147 inches wide onto a wall.

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High-resolution sound available with Sony's new 'Walkman'

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. announces in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2014, the launch of a new model of its portable audio player "Walkman" offering higher resolution and better sound quality than CDs.

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Engineers, other experts design all-terrain wheelchair

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Sugie, CEO of San Carlos, California-based startup WHILL Inc., poses in the company's all-terrain electric wheelchair in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2014. The venture was founded by former engineers and other experts of major Japanese manufacturers such as Nissan Motor Co. and Sony Corp.

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Positive outlook on 'wearable' devices, says Sony CEO

BERLIN, Germany - Sony Corp. CEO Kazuo Hirai speaks in an interview at the IFA global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 4, 2014. He said the market potential of wearable devices is quite positive, citing a projection that it will grow into a 20 billion dollar business in four years.

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Sony unveils new 'wearable' device at German fair

BERLIN, Germany - Sony Corp. unveils a "SmartBand Talk" wearable device in several color variations at the IFA trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances in Berlin on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Sony to release curved 4K LCD TV in China

BEIJING, China - Sony Corp. announces in Beijing on Aug. 7, 2014, that it will release a TV with a curved liquid crystal display screen for 4K ultra high-definition broadcasting in China in September.

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Sony group net profit up 8.6-fold in April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida announces the company's earnings report for the April-June quarter on July 31, 2014, in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's group net profit in the three-month period rose nearly 8.6-fold to 26.81 billion yen due to strong sales of its gaming console and the yen's depreciation.