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9 times out of 10 the names on guitars such as this are meaningless - it's not a maker's name, just a random brand name used by whatever company ordered & imported it from Japan.
Sometimes a guitar will have some features which allow us to specifically ID the factory which made it but unfortunately yours is quite generic in this respect. That means I can say which factories didn't make it, but sadly not who did! For the record, this guitar wasn't made by Matsumoku, Fujigen Gakki or Kasuga. It has some traits which might associate it with a trading company called Rokkomann (who are thought to have owned a manufacturing facility) but at this point we don't know enough about them or their products to be 100% certain.
I'm guessing you've not played it a lot in the years that you've owned it but have you noticed what the body's made from? It will be either solid timber, veneered butcher-block or veneered plywood. Depending on the finish it might not be possible to tell without dismantling the guitar. The neck's been removed from yours at some point (the neck plate is on upside-down) and the type of construction would be clearly visible inside the neck pocket.
It's really not possible to say what it's worth - a lot of the value of vintage Japanese copies is down to the brand names - people will pay more for names like Ibanez, Aria, Antoria, Greco etc than they will for smaller importer brands.
I'd recommend that you re-string the E, B & G strings correctly - the way these 3 strings are fitted at the moment means the tuners will work back-to-front, and the acute angle behind the nut will make them more prone to snapping.
Jon.
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