Hideo Nakayama, the founder of Sun Chlorella Group was born in 1915 in Rebun island where is located in the northernmost part of Japan. After World War II, although his business in Kyoto was successful, he was attacked by various diseases because of overwork in a long-term military life. When he was settling his business in order to concentrate on the medical treatment, there was fateful encounter with chlorella. Due to his tremendous amount of effort, he miraculously recovered thanks to chlorella. Then, he made a decision to devote the rest of his life for the research and the spread of chlorella as he believed that letting everyone realize the joy of recovery from diseases and the wonderfulness of chlorella to many people is a divine decree for him. In 1969, at the age of 54, he established a chlorella sales agency "Heian Chlorella Jeffcy Co., Ltd." in Kyoto with his wife. Initially, he began to sell the products at the store, however, he felt the need of "Increasing the consumer recognition of chlorella", "Providing credibility and comfort of our products to many customers" and "Conveying correct product information to customer directly". So he changed the selling method to introducing the direct-selling method by mail-order system. He worked on research of chlorella and never became bloated with his pride by chlorella being appreciated. Although chlorella became popular, he continued the research for making the chlorella with the best quality always. In that regard, it is also shown clearly that our proprietary pulverization method of chlorella cell wall was recognized as a patent both in Japan and the U.S. On the other hand, as he thought that there was no border for wishing health, he had also started to spread chlorella overseas. The recent annual sales of Sun Chlorella Group is about JP(Yen)20 billion. Even today Sun Chlorella Corporation grew up to be a leading company in Kyoto, we have been inheriting Nakayama's foundation spirit and his ethics with each company of the Sun Chlorella Group. 1969 December Established Heian Chlorella Jeffcy Co., Ltd. 1971 July Changed company name to Sun Chlorella Co., Ltd., and began production of our own brand Sun Chlorella 1974 March Completion ceremony for corporate headquarters 1975 July Established Chlorella Trading Co., Ltd. fully financed by Chlorella Sun Co., Ltd. 1976 June Achieved pulverization of chlorella cell wall August Extracted successfully Chlorella Growth Factor (C.G.F.) November Started selling our patented product Sun Chlorella "A" 1979 July Began selling our product Chlorella Wakasa Gold 1980 February Chlorella Sun Co., Ltd. changed company name to Sun Chlorella Co., Ltd. 1981 December Granted Japan patent No. 1076130, "Method of Disrupting the Chlorella Cell Wall by Cell Rupture" 1982 November Established Sun Chlorella California Inc. (Torrance, U.S.A.) December Sun Chlorella California Inc. changed to YSK American Corporation 1984 July Started research on Eleuthero in Ashoro. (Hokkaido, Japan) 1986 January Sun Chlorella Co., Ltd. changed to YSK International Corporation 1987 January Began first clinical research with Virginia Commonwealth University 1989 September Established Yume Co., Ltd. November Established Sun Chlorella Co., Ltd. as a domestic sales company 1993 June YSK American Corporation changed to Sun Wellness, Inc. July Founded PT. Sun Chlorella Indonesia Manufacturing 1994 July Granted U.S. patent No. 5330913, "Method of Disrupting the Chlorella Cell Wall by Cell Rupture" October Completion of the PT. Sun Chlorella Indonesia Manufacturing 1999 June Sun Chlorella Co., Ltd. changed to Sun Chlorella Sales Corporation December YSK International Corporation changed company name to Sun Chlorella Corporation 2000 January Founder Hideo Nakayama passed away April Sun Wellness Inc. changed to Sun Chlorella USA Corporation August Started annual special support for Sun Chlorella Classic golf tournament (Sapporo, Japan) October Established Sun Chlorella Europe (Munich, Germany) 2001 January Granted Japan patent No. 3143636, "Method of Disrupting the Chlorella Cell Wall by Cell Rupture" April Established Sun Chlorella Corporation Shanghai Representative Office (Shanghai, China) May Completion of new corporate headquarters (Kyoto, Japan) Began selling our product Sun Chlorella Agaricus December Established Sun Chlorella USA Corporation New York Branch office (New York, U.S.A.) 2003 April Established Sun Chlorella Brasil Importação e Exportação Ltda. (São Paulo, Brazil) September Granted U.S. patent "Method of a Mixture of the Agaricus Blazei Murrill" October Established Sun Chlorella Corporation Düsseldorf Branch (Düsseldorf, Germany) December Granted Japan patent "Method of a Mixture of the Agaricus Blazei Murrill" 2004 March Completion of new headquarters of Sun Chlorella USA Corporation (Los Angels, U.S.A.) 2005 June Established Sun Chlorella Corporation London Branch (London, U.K.) 2006 March Established Sun Chlorella Shanghai Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) 2007 January Established Sun Chlorella Beijing Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China) November Sun Chlorella USA Corporation New York Branch office was integrated into L.A. head office