The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo displayed Mitsubishi Electric's "Geo-Cosmos", the world's first large-scale spherical OLED.
Aum Shinrikyo is the worst cult in Japan's history and Shoko Asahara, a guru of the group, was sentenced to death by hanging on February 27, 2004. But he is still in jail even now because other Aum members' trials have not finished yet and some members have not been arrested (I guess they've died already). Some say that Asahara has a mental disorder and needs to wear a diaper in jail.
The head office of Aum was built in Kamiku Isshiki in the Yamanashi prefecture, a very good but inconveniently located area near Mt. Fuji. After the arrest of their members, Aum left the place and the Yamanashi prefecture built an amusement park called "Gulliver Land" to eradicate the image of Aum. They erected a big Gulliver statue and some amusement facilities. However, they were too easygoing with their restructuring plans, and two years later, the park encountered many financial difficulties and had to close. After several years, the park was bought by another company, but they soon gave up on the park as well. So for a while, the big Gulliver suffered from lack of maintenance. He has a lot of graffiti on him, and people took lots of pictures with him. Here are some photos of Gulliver Land. Now it is broken down and we can't find it on Google Maps.
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