OK. So that explains it. You are getting, and paying for, an over 100,000 yen bass but they are calling it a 55... Makes perfect sense. Clear as mud."Tokai change ”modelnumbers” every year ’cause model number tells the price in Japanese Yen. We wanted to keep original modelnumbers from the 80s." and "It’s comparable with AJB-108/110."
I have seen this with special order TST50 Mary Kay Goldstars as well. They actually cost a lot more than 50,000 yen.
I would assume these are special orders placed by the distributor. They then get to rename them it seems.
Same with Nafiri in Indonesia. I believe they are a distributor and place big orders and have some say in how the guitars are built and named it would seem. They also carry these so called TJB55 bass guitars.