white stuff is their Polishing compoundYou don't have to yell! LOL
It's definitely not made in Japan for a number of reasons, the obvious one being the oblong routs for the pickup tabs.
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And I am not sure how you can tell if this is the original paint job or not? What I am seeing is that the purple covers everything, so no way to know if there was a color under it based on the pics you posted.
And no idea what that white stuff sprayed on top of the purple paint is? Polyurethane coat?
I suspect it is an ALS48 in the metallic purple finish.
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