8) as far as i know, there isnt any guitar forum in japan but here they call it "community", not the forums. those guitar communities exist here and there in the internet but usually they are very small and their members are about less than 50 or so i guess. the japanese usually dont talk much and loud publically so this might be the reason why the forums like the world has, dont exist here in japan. generally, the japanese are very shy people. i work for the music store and been playing guitars since i was 15 so i have been reading most of the guitar magazines every month also. in the past 30 years or so since the late 80s, i havent found basically any article about the old tokai, greco, others people. occasionally i found the factory reports of tokai and others on the net but not the articles of those old tokai people and others. i personally needed to know some stuff about the old tokai situations so i have had a contact with some old tokai people and sometimes they told me some cool good ole infos and sometimes they said they cant because its the companys secret infos. the best person who absolutely knows so much about the old tokai situations was mr.kunishi furuhashi of the guitar shop "neo" in nagoya. he worked at tokai in the 80s and laters he helped to make LS320 & LS150F. but even mr.furuhashi, he could tell me some and he couldnt tell me some because of the company rules. i try to meet him someday and ask him all i wanna ask. i must be a trustable gentleman to do this. i live in near yokohama so its far from here to his city nagoya. so someday, i sure ask him. and tell you guys here the good ole tokai secrets!