Digital Hollywood University to deploy Claude campus-wide from November

Digital Hollywood University's move puts Claude into a lineup of generative AI tools already adopted by Japanese universities at scale. Tohoku University led with ChatGPT in May 2023, Shiga University became the first in Japan to roll out ChatGPT Edu across all faculties in April 2025, and Otemon Gakuin University is set to open Gemini to all students in April 2026. Claude's arrival at DHU adds another major AI provider to that mix.

The university is not treating this as a simple account handout. Since September it has operated an all-campus AI platform that lets users work with multiple generative AI tools, plus a campus portal where each class gets an AI teaching assistant. Claude is being added to that foundation, with the stated aim of building students' ability to think and create with AI. Planned uses span video and game production and brainstorming at the undergraduate level, research, analysis and thesis-writing support at the graduate level, and administrative work.

The rollout also comes with a rules layer. DHU says it will redesign education so assignments are built around AI use and outcomes are evaluated accordingly, and will set internal rules on declaring AI use in submitted work and on handling copyright and personal information. Anthropic launched its education-focused plan, Claude for Education, in April 2025, and Anthropic Japan representative executive officer Hidetoshi Tojo commented in the university's press release that experience using advanced AI daily from student days, while understanding its possibilities and limits and using it responsibly, will serve students well in society.