Code with Claude Lands in Tokyo — Anthropic's First Developer Conference in Asia-Pacific
Anthropic brought its Code with Claude developer conference to Tokyo on June 10 — its first stop in Asia-Pacific — with three tracks on research, the Claude platform, and Claude Code, plus an Extended builder day on June 11. The move plants a flag in Japan's enterprise market before rivals do.
Anthropic brought Code with Claude, its developer conference, to Tokyo on June 10 — the event's first stop in Asia-Pacific. Free to attend both in person and by global livestream, the day ran Anthropic's now-familiar three-track format: a Research track offering direct access to its researchers, a Claude Platform track on deploying production agents, and a Claude Code track on scaling AI coding inside real engineering workflows. A separate "Extended" day on June 11 turns the spotlight on independent developers and early-stage founders, with builder deep-dives and hands-on workshops from Anthropic's Applied AI team.
The session lineup leans on the tools Anthropic has pushed all year: managed agents in production, enterprise adoption patterns for Claude Code, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, with partner appearances expected from the likes of GitHub, Vercel, and Datadog. Across the conference series, the company has fielded senior names — chief product officer Ami Vora, Claude Code head Boris Cherny, and Claude API product lead Angela Jiang.
Tokyo is a deliberate choice. Anthropic has spent 2026 building a Japanese beachhead: an enterprise partnership with NEC in April, and — as BitsMinds reported — sovereign access to its restricted Claude Mythos model for Japan's megabanks in May, brokered with help from the US Treasury. Picking Japan for its first APAC developer event is a bet on getting embedded with Japanese enterprises — known for longer procurement cycles and a reliance on established technology partners — before competitors do.
Where the London edition on May 19 framed everything around European regulated industries and EU AI Act compliance, Tokyo's pitch is about enterprise partnerships and regional expansion. The watch-fors flagged for the day include localized multilingual Claude demonstrations, possible pricing or access tweaks to ease the dollar-conversion friction that makes frontier models expensive across Asia-Pacific, and any hint of dedicated Japan or APAC infrastructure. All sessions stream globally, with recordings due on Anthropic's channel within roughly a week to ten days.
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