Japan's FSA formally convened named senior officials — including the BOJ Governor and megabank presidents — to assess Mythos risks and established a working group, making Japan the first major Asian economy with a concrete named ministerial response to the model.
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Bloomberg: Japan FSA expands Mythos working group to 36 entities including Anthropic Japan and OpenAI Japan; first meeting May 15 chaired by Mizuho CISO
Bloomberg reported on May 12 that Japan's Financial Services Agency has expanded its Mythos cybersecurity working group to 36 entities — including megabanks, internet banks, the Bank of Japan, and the Japanese units of both Anthropic and OpenAI — with the group's first formal meeting scheduled for May 15. Mizuho Financial Group CISO Osamu Terai will chair the group, which will discuss procedures for handling discovered vulnerabilities, defensive measures, and contingency planning. The FSA is also considering information-sharing arrangements with U.S. and overseas authorities. Growing interest from Japanese banks in Project Glasswing access is reported, with Anthropic described as potentially providing limited defensive access to participating financial institutions.
The FSA working group's expansion to 36 named entities — including the Japanese subsidiaries of Anthropic and OpenAI — and its inaugural May 15 meeting make Japan's financial-sector Mythos response the largest multi-institution coordinated regulatory forum on the model to date; the FSA's international information-sharing consideration signals Japan may seek allied government access coordination.
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NHK/Jiji Press: Japan's Finance Minister and FSA convene Bank of Japan, three megabanks, and JPX on Mythos risks; formal public-private working group established
Japan's Financial Services Agency convened an emergency meeting on April 23 with the Bank of Japan, three megabanks, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the National Cybersecurity Office after Anthropic's Mythos announcement. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said: 'This is a crisis that is already upon us — cyberattacks against the financial industry could immediately trigger credit uneasiness.' On April 24, Katayama announced a formal working group jointly with the financial industry. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda, JPX CEO Hiromi Yamaji, and the presidents of Japan's three megabanks all attended. Japan has no public Mythos access.
Japan's FSA establishing a named minister-led, BOJ-and-megabank-attended working group on Mythos risks upgrades Japan from a research-watch placeholder to a concrete institutional regulatory response from the world's third-largest economy.
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