I should have put that title in my previous post! Does anyone else have a guitar with this type of serial number? I've seen it said that it's Chinese and I've also seen it said that it could be Korean or Japanese. The Love Rock I bought the other day has this type of number but the previous owner told me that he bought it new in 1998 - seven years before Tokai were manufacturing guitars in China (as far as I've been able to ascertain). He sold it to me as Chinese, so he hadn't anything to gain by lying about the age of the guitar. So what's the deal here? Does anyone with a Tokai with this serial number type know where/when it was made? I'm not going to sell mine, I love it, but I'd like to know a bit more about it!