Anthropic Opens Tokyo Office

Anthropic has officially opened its Tokyo office, its first base in the Asia-Pacific region. CEO Dario Amodei met with Japanese government officials to discuss cooperation, and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Japan AI Safety Institute for AI evaluation methodologies and trend monitoring.

Anthropic also joined the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group, reinforcing its commitment to complying with global AI safety frameworks. This is in line with the earlier case where the US and UK AI Safety Institutes jointly evaluated Claude 3.5 Sonnet, demonstrating international cooperation.

AI adoption in Japan is actively progressing in a direction that assists rather than replaces human capabilities. Key use cases from major companies include the following:

• Rakuten: Improved development productivity through an autonomous coding project using Claude.
• Nomura Research Institute: Reduced document analysis time from hours to minutes.
• Panasonic: Integrated Claude across business operations and consumer applications.
• Classmethod: Generated 99% of a project's codebase using Claude Code, achieving a 10x productivity increase.

As revenue growth in the Asia-Pacific region has increased more than 10x over the past year, Anthropic plans to further expand its presence to Seoul and Bengaluru in the future.