Code with Claude Tokyo 2026

• At Code with Claude London on May 19, Anthropic announced two new Claude Managed Agents capabilities now available on the Claude Platform.
• Self-hosted sandboxes (public beta): tool execution moves to an environment the team configures, either their own infrastructure or a managed provider like Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, or Vercel, while the agent loop handling orchestration, context management, and error recovery stays on Anthropic's infrastructure. Network policies, audit logging, and security tooling apply, and files and repositories do not leave the perimeter.
• MCP tunnels (research preview): agents reach MCP servers inside a private network without exposing them to the public internet. A lightweight gateway makes a single outbound connection with no inbound firewall rules, no public endpoints, and end-to-end encryption. MCP tunnels are supported in Managed Agents and the Messages API.
• Teams including Amplitude, Clay, and Rogo are already building on Managed Agents with self-hosted sandboxes. The full recap is on Anthropic's London blog.

• NEC Corporation will use Claude as it builds one of Japan's largest AI-native engineering organizations, making it available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide. NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner.
• Together the two companies will develop secure, industry-specific AI products for the Japanese market, starting with tools for finance, manufacturing, and local government. The partnership was announced on April 24, 2026, on Anthropic's official newsroom.

• Hitachi announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic on May 19, 2026, to advance physical AI across critical infrastructure sectors including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and finance.
• Hitachi will deploy Claude models across all business processes for its approximately 290,000 employees worldwide, and the two companies will jointly develop talent programs to cultivate approximately 100,000 AI professionals. The full announcement is on Hitachi's official press page.

Code with Claude Tokyo is Anthropic's first developer event in Asia-Pacific. The 2026 series expanded from one city to three across three continents, with San Francisco on May 6, London on May 19, and Tokyo on June 10. Tokyo gives Japan and APAC-based developers their first in-person access to the teams behind Claude, Claude Code, and the Claude Platform.

The event offers hands-on exposure to Claude Code, Claude Platform, and AI-assisted coding practices, with direct access to Anthropic engineers and product leads throughout the day. For the wider tooling landscape, see our AI engineering tools coverage.

Extended Tokyo adds a startup-focused layer, showing how independent builders and early-stage teams can move from idea to working product with Claude. Our founder intelligence hub tracks the market signals behind these tools.

The event helps clarify how Claude fits into team workflows, internal tools, production systems, and developer productivity plans, with real customer examples from teams already in production.

Sessions provide direct signals on how Claude can be embedded into applications, AI workflows, and customer-facing products, with live demos of the latest Claude Platform and Claude Code capabilities.