php curl japanese output garbled

Question

Consider following URL: click here

There is some encoding into Japanese characters. Firefox browser on my PC is able to detect it automatically and show the characters. For Chrome, on the other hand, I have to change the encoding manually to "Shift_JIS" to see the japanese characters.

If I try to access the content via PHP-cURL, the encoded text appears garbled like this

��ϕi�̂��ƂȂ��I�݂��Ȃ̃N�`�R�~�T�C�g��i�A�b�g�R�X��j�ɂ��܂��I

I tried:

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'Shift_JIS');

I also tried (after downloading the curl response):

  $output_str = mb_convert_encoding($curl_response, 'Shift_JIS', 'auto');
  $output_str = mb_convert_encoding($curl_response, 'SJIS', 'auto');

But that does not work either.

Here is the full code

   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
        'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5',
        'Connection: keep-alive'
    ));

    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'SJIS');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);

php curl japanese output garbled

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