Anthropic opens Tokyo office, signs a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Japan AI Safety Institute

Source: Anthropic Date: 2025-10-29 URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/opening-our-tokyo-office

Summary

Anthropic opened its first Asia-Pacific office in Tokyo (Dario Amodei visiting). New partnerships: MoC with Japan AI Safety Institute (evaluation methodologies, emerging trend monitoring), Mori Art Museum (Roppongi Crossing 2025 contemporary art exhibition), Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group. Japan enterprise clients: Rakuten, Nomura Research Institute, Panasonic, Classmethod. Asia-Pacific: 10x revenue growth year-over-year. Next expansions: Seoul and Bengaluru.

Implications

• International expansion / Asia-Pacific at 10x YoY. 10x year-over-year revenue growth in Asia-Pacific (the region’s trajectory announced at the office opening) is the fastest-growing segment — it explains why Tokyo was the first dedicated office rather than a European capital.
• Japan AI Safety Institute MoC. The Japan AI Safety Institute collaboration is the third national AI safety institute relationship (after US CAISI, UK AISI) — Anthropic was building a trilateral government safety institute network. Japan’s AISI collaboration (October 2025) followed two weeks after the US/UK CAISI/AISI red-teaming publication (September 12, 2025).
• Mori Art Museum partnership. Arts partnership at the Tokyo office opening is culturally appropriate for Japan (where arts-technology intersection is prominent) and sends a different signal than typical enterprise-only announcements. It positions Claude as a creative tool, not just an enterprise productivity product.
• Seoul + Bengaluru as next. The explicit next-expansion announcement (Seoul, Bengaluru) from the Tokyo opening frames Asia-Pacific as a multi-city buildout, not a single hub strategy. These three cities represent Japan (enterprise), Korea (consumer/gaming), and India (developer/engineering) — different market profiles.
• Watch: how Seoul and Bengaluru offices performed relative to Tokyo; whether the Japan AI Safety Institute collaboration produced published evaluation methodologies; how 10x YoY growth sustained in subsequent quarters.