T-Square is the official website for the Japanese band, T-Square Super Band. The band debuted in 1978. Though the website is entirely written in Japanese, it is easily translated to English with a click of the mouse. The website is well designed and easy to navigate.
On the homepage, you will find a section dedicated to the most recent news about the band. It includes about five press release type posts that provide information about what the band is doing. You will also find a list of the band’s upcoming live performances, so if you are in the area, you can go listen to them perform. You will also see the most recent Facebook posts, and have the chance to like their Facebook page without ever leaving their official website,.
On the sidebar, you will see links to Facebook, Amazon, and other ways to learn more about the band, including member blogs. This helps fans connect with the band outside their official website, and lets them know where to go to purchase their music.
The website also features a link to the band’s discography, where you will see a listing of every single album (more than 40 to date) the band has ever released over their 35 year career. Next to each album cover, you will see a list of songs on each album. Though the album names are translated in English, the song names themselves are still in Japanese.
The website also features a biography page where you can learn about the band itself, including how it came together, and what they are up to now. On that page, there are links to biographies of each individual member. The T-Square members are: Bando Satoshi, Kono Keizo, Ando Western, and Ito Takeshi.
There is also a full timeline of the band and their accomplishments, from the time they were formed in 1978, until 2012. The timeline should be updated to reflect what the band has done in 2013 and 2014, but that could be added in the future.
Those who are interested in staying up to date with what is going on with T-Square can sign up for their newsletter and email updates, by joining their email list on the “Mail Magazine” page that has been translated to English. It is unlikely the email list itself is translated to English, but Americans who want to read it could always translate it on their own with an online translator.
This is a nicely designed website that has everything fans would expect from a band’s website. Though it is targeted a Japanese audience, it appears the band is widely popular amongst fans, as not many bands have careers that span across four decades.