A VIN describes how a vehicle was built. It cannot describe where it was shipped, and no decoder anywhere changes that. The free GCC spec check reads your VIN, gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it, and lists the physical and documentary checks that settle what the VIN cannot, starting with the GSO conformity lookup. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, and the Toyota page explains the scheme above position by position.
Common questions
Does a Land Cruiser 200 VIN show the model year?
Not on the export cars this page covers. Position 10, which carries the model year on an American car, is the filler digit 0, and 0 is not a member of the model-year alphabet at all. The decoder returns no year rather than reading the filler as one. The production window shown against each code is a range for the whole variant and is not a statement about your car.
Why do two Land Cruisers with the same middle characters decode differently?
Because the descriptor is only meaningful together with the first three characters. HT05J under JTM is a Land Cruiser 200 with the 2UZ 4.7 V8, and the identical HT05J under JTE is a Land Cruiser 100. Toyota reuses descriptors across WMIs, which is why this decoder keys on both.