You'll notice that there are no CIJ guitars before 1995, which is when Fender did the deal with Tokai Gakki to take over from Fuji-gen Gakki as their chief Fender Japan manufacturer (note that the MIJs have returned in recent years). Here's a chart from Fender Japan I pulled from a Japanese guitar blog: You may prefer to believe otherwise and that's entirely your right, but there's no ambiguity about the meaning of the serial number. On the other hand if you go to Japanese websites, they will tell you that CIJ began in 1995, and that CIJ - Q0 + 5 digits indicates a 2002-2004 manufacture date.
MatthewK wrote:There's no mystery, the Fender guy told you it wasn't in his database so his answer was a guess.
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