# Japan Startup Resources

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/japanstartupresources-com/  
**Website:** https://japanstartupresources.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Japan Startup Resources is an independent directory and weekly newsletter that helps entrepreneurs start and run businesses in Japan. It curates guides, visa information, incorporation steps, funding sources, accelerators, coworking spaces, job listings, and community resources. The site offers a free newsletter every Friday with new entries and analysis of policy changes, aiming to simplify the fragmented ecosystem for foreign founders.

## Kin Score — 17.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Access Clarity | 10.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 20.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 24.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Japan Startup Resources API** — API providing curated weekly events and news via MCP JSON-RPC.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Japan Startup Resources Agentic Access** — 1 operation · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Japan Startup Resources Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Japan Startup Resources Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC

## Tags

Startups, Japan, Entrepreneurship, Directory, Newsletters

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/japanstartupresources-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.