Weird characters sometimes appears on Japanese website

Hello there,
I have a macbook pro. When I go on some Japanese websites, there're full of weird characters sometimes appears. It doesn't happen everytime. How can I fix it? I appreciate your time in advance.

bonybunny wrote:
Here's one of example of the site http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~zennsaku/syasinn.htm for you to see what I meant.
In that case the author used obsolete software from the 1990's to create the site and omitted the required code to tell the browser to use Shift-JIS encoding.

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