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Anthropic appoints Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan and announces Tokyo office hiring plans

Anthropic has appointed Hidetoshi Tojo, formerly Japan Country Manager at Snowflake and a veteran of Google Cloud Japan and Microsoft, as its Head of Japan. The company plans to officially open its first Asia office in Tokyo in the coming months and expand local hiring. Existing Japanese enterprise customers include Rakuten, NRI, and Panasonic. The Japan HQ will support partnerships with businesses, policymakers, and platform partners including Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex.