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 Prado VIN show the model year?
Often yes, and that makes the Prado unusual among export Toyotas. Where position 10 carries a genuine year character rather than the filler 0, it is a real model year and the decoder reports it. This was verified on the 120 series. Where the filler appears instead, there is no year in the VIN and the decoder says nothing rather than reading the filler as a year.