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Netti tarjosi nopealla haulla tällaisen historiiki:
 
"In March 1982, Fender Japan was created as a joint venture with Kanda Shokai and Yamano Music. The company was created to better compete with the glut of copies being produced in Japan. Although things may well be different now, Fender (U.S.) had 3 "votes" on the Fender Japan board, Kanda Shokai had 2 and Yamano Music had 1. Fender US owned a little under half of the Fender Japan stocks.
 
The licensing of the deal is that Fender Japan is allowed to produce guitars for its domestic market, as well as import guitars produced by Fender for the international markets. As well, there are guitars produced by FMIC that are also specific to the Japanese market. Last year, for example, various "Thin Lacquer" versions of FMIC reissues were sold here.
 
Fujigen is, indeed, still the factory producing the guitars and the work is excellent. (Fujigen's own brand of guitars are very high-end and command a high selling price here.)
 
In 1985, when CBS sold Fender to Bill Schultz, the Fender Japan stock and licensing agreements went to FMIC. As FMIC had not acquired factories in the purchase, production pretty much moved completely overseas. For a while in '85, Fujigen was not able to supply enough guitars, so Moridaira Musical Instruments in Tokyo began producing some models of electric guitars, in addition to the acoustic models they had already been providing for FMIC.
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