Many gibsons, fenders, yamahas, and ibanez guitars are really fujigen guitars.
While fujigen doesn't have a us presence, most kids are playing a rebranded fujigen.
Sadly the really awesome fujigen are unknown in the U.S.
That said, I find early 80s kramers to be amazingly well built and playable solid body guitars.
My holy grail guitar (other than my focus1000 with banana headstock) is the kramer liberty type that sam kinison played on the "wild thing" video.
That guitar was a work of art and had a ton of different sounds at it's disposal as well as neck-thru construction.
Here's a black one some guy plays as often as the other sweet guitars he has
I still like the double cutaway les paul that pat travers used to play before he endorsed paul reed smith guitars.
Apparently they only made 6 of them that went to Travers, Ace Frehley, Greg Lake, and the Guitarist from "america"...not sure what happened to the other two.
Pat used it for years and it sold for 10,000 on ebay a while ago.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ou-2t5cm-c