Why can't I read the text on some japanese official homepages etc.?

Question

I can't read some of the text on for example some japanese official homepages.. like the bands : SuG's, s***w's, It only says these kind of signs instead of the actual text. I have that thing installed that makes you able to see kanji, hiragana and katakana but it still won't work.. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Because it's in Japanese.

Answer 2

Up on the menu bar, click view, then character encoding, then Japanese.

It might be on unicode and being read incorrectly.

If not, then they didn't encode it correctly.

I checked SuG's page, their encription is incorrect.  It appears to be junk.

As for s***w, I have never heard of them.