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Vertex AI in the Tokyo Region: Seven Models You Can Call, Eight That Are Processed in Japan

Seven Google models answer at the Tokyo endpoint (asia-northeast1). Eight entries are committed to ML processing inside Japan. Those two lists live on different pages, in different tables, and they do not match. Here is what the official documentation actually says about endpoints, context length and jurisdiction.

2026-09-06Ryuta Hamamoto

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Can You Actually Run an LLM Inside Japan? What the Providers' Own Docs Say

"Available in the Tokyo region" and "processed only in the Tokyo region" are two different claims. Read the official documentation from AWS, Microsoft and Google and a pattern shows up: the newer the model, the less likely it can stay inside Japan. Here is what the docs actually say, and which rules genuinely require domestic processing.

2026-09-05Ryuta Hamamoto