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<h1>Home Page for OMOTE Family</h1>
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<h2>Welcome aboard!</h2>
You reached the home page for OMOTE family.
These pages are produced for keeping you informed
with Japan, elephants and OMOTE Family,
anytime and anywhere in the world.
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These pages are presented by Masanori "Smiley" OMOTE.
Of course,
"Smiley" is none of a formal middle name but a nickname.
Don't miss it. :-) 

<h2>Contents</h2>
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Sorry, many of our contents are under construction.
They are coming up soon.
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<a href="intro.html">
Introduction</a> of OMOTE family.
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Our favorite 
<a href="bars/index.html">
bars/aka-chochins around Sagami-ono</a>.
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Pages for 
<a href="zo-san/zo-san.html">
elephants</a>.
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<a href="links.html">
Useful links</a> selected by Masanori "Smiley" OMOTE.
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<h2>Future Plan</h2>
We plan to enrich elephants page.
We also plan to release guide pages for Finland, U.S.A. and Japan.
But we don't expect they will be released until May.
Don't miss to visit.

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<a href="index-j.html">
[-> Home page in Japanese]</a>

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<i>Last modified: October 11, 1997</i><br>
Copyright &copy 1996 by Masanori OMOTE<br>
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<a href="mailto:masa@omote.imasy.or.jp">masa@omote.imasy.or.jp</a>
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