year model Everyone of these trucks that come into the USA will have a certificate of export from Japan or where ever it came from. That paper will tell you what year the truck is, aswell as ser. # and a few other points of interest. If your dealer doesnt have it, his broker will( the guy he buys from)have the original cert. I give my retail buyers a copy of that certificate. I keep the original. To some degree it looks like a title to a regular car here in the states. Now once you get that cert. you have to get somebody to translate it. I use a college student at University of Texas (HOOK UM HORNS) Terry