Zone (band)

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Zone
ZONE Final in Budokan
Background information
Origin	Sapporo, Japan
Genres	J-pop rock
Years active	1997–2005 2011–2013
Labels	Sony Music
Past members	Miyu Nagase Mizuho Saito Maiko Sakae Takayo Ookoshi Tomoka Nishimura

Zone (ゾーン) was an all-female rock band started in Sapporo, Japan, in 1997. It started as a dance group and turned into an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new^[when?] genre called "bandol" (a portmanteau of the words "band" and "idol"). The band was started and managed by Studio RunTime and its first single, "Good Days", was released by the major record label Sony Records, on February 7, 2001. The group officially disbanded on March 2, 2013.

Zone's most famous song is "Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono)", released on August 8, 2001. It sold about 744,000 copies in Japan.^[1]