History of Himawari System Development
| 1978 | La Forêt Engineering Information Services Inc. established. |
| 1979 | Mono-lens Himawari, an automatic sunlight collection and transmission system, developed. |
| 1985 | Exhibited at Tsukuba EXPO’85 Government Theme Pavilion A. |
| 1988 | HIMAWARI XD 50 Mini 18 lens developed. |
| 1991 | Company reorganized to La Forêt Engineering Ltd., Co. |
| 1996 | 12 lens Himawari developed. |
| 1996 | Himawari Mini 6 lens developed. |
| 1997 | Himawari AS series developed. |
| 1998 | Himawari SB series developed. |
| 2006 | Himawari CA mirror developed. |