🇯🇵Biotechnology & Drug Discovery in Japan

8 biotechnology & drug discovery providers in Japan, publishing 9 APIs.

8 providers 9 published APIs 9 indexed documents

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery in Japan — 8 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 9 indexed APIs.

4 of the 8 publish at least one machine-readable API; 4 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 5 emerging and 3 minimal.

Leading by rating: Tohoku University, AgroDesign Studios, Spiber, aceRNA Technologies, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, AI Medical Service, and 2 more.

Country membership reads a tag or a stated headquarters. A provider lands in Japan when one of its own top-level tags names the country, or when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities (roadmap#542, #719). A description that calls a company by its nationality, or names a city in a phrase that is not a headquarters statement, is not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.

Providers (8)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Tohoku University Tohoku University is a Japanese national research university in Sendai, founded in 1907, one of the seven former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University. Its ... 5 emerging
AgroDesign Studios AgroDesign Studios (株式会社アグロデザイン・スタジオ) is a Japanese structural-biology startup founded 30 March 2018 by CEO Yuki Nishigaya, based in the University of Tokyo Kashiwa-II campus in... 2 emerging
Spiber Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology and advanced-materials company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Spiber develops Brewed Protein ... 1 emerging
aceRNA Technologies aceRNA Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Japanese biotechnology venture founded in April 2018 to commercialize the RNA design technology ("RNA Switch") developed in the synthetic RNA ... 1 emerging
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1781 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (4502)... 0 emerging
AI Medical Service AI Medical Service Inc. (AIM) is a Tokyo-based med-tech company founded in September 2017 with the mission to save lives worldwide by eliminating gastrointestinal cancers throug... 0 minimal
Aculys Aculys Pharma, Inc. is a Japanese clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on neurological and psychiatric diseases where there is high unmet medical need. The company w... 0 minimal
Aisilk AI Silk Corporation develops innovative conductive fibers using a unique dyeing technique, creating electrodes that reduce discomfort, inflammation, and measurement failures in ... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (9)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 9 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 9 documents.

jMorp GraphQL API (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)

Public, anonymous, read-only GraphQL API for jMorp — the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Or...

TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the departmental set hierarchy and the ...

GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider

Tohoku University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management federation operated b...

Crossref DOI Registration Membership

Three Tohoku University units are Crossref members registering DOIs under their own prefixes, verified against api.crossref.org on 2026-0...

ROR Organization Record

Tohoku University's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID 01dq60k83, carrying the English, romanized and Japanese names and the c...

AgroBox Site MCP

A live, unauthenticated remote Model Context Protocol endpoint served at the AgroBox structural-biology service site. The server is the W...

AgroDesign.SHOP Site MCP

The second live, unauthenticated remote MCP endpoint, served at the AgroDesign.SHOP storefront where the company sells lab-automation rob...

Spiber Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Spiber website at spiber.xsrv.jp/api: the route index of the site's content management sys...

aceRNA Technologies Site MCP

A live, anonymously reachable Model Context Protocol endpoint served from aceRNA Technologies' own host and advertised in the site's llms...

Other industries in Japan

Artificial Intelligence 25 Data & Analytics 15 Education & EdTech 11 Financial Technology 11 Industrial 11 Payments & Money Movement 10 Developer Tools & DevOps 9 Digital Health & Telehealth 9 E-Commerce Platform 9 Healthcare 9 IoT & Connected Devices 9 Supply Chain & Procurement 9 All of Japan →

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery elsewhere

North America 308 Greater China 63 Europe 49 United Kingdom & Ireland 18 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 14 Japan & Korea 13 France & Iberia 9 India & South Asia 6 Southeast Asia 4 Benelux 3 Middle East 3 Nordics 3 All of Biotechnology & Drug Discovery →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Japan and Biotechnology & Drug Discovery. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Japan membership is matched on tag, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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