Artificial intelligenceUS startup seeks to cultivate Japanese market to broaden user baseArtificial intelligence startup Anthropic hosted Code with Claude, an event for developers, in Tokyo on June 10. (Photo by Yuki Nakao)REI NAKAFUJI, UTA TOKUDA and MANAMI OGAWAJune 11, 2026 02:14 JSTTOKYO -- Anthropic invited nearly 500 software engineers to an event in the Japanese capital on Wednesday to promote its Claude artificial intelligence tools and other products, touting how its autonomous code-writing programs could drastically improve productivity.