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 programmable footprint is small, unevenly distributed, and mostly NOT operated by central IT — which is the honest shape for a university, and the profile says so rather than padding it. Exactly one unambiguously institution-operated API was found: jMorp, the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization at jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp, which answers anonymous GraphQL queries and full schema introspection over a 305-field read-only query root. Everything else is a relationship rather than a contract: the TOUR institutional repository is a tenant on NII's JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) with a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint; the university operates its own SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider registered in the GakuNin national academic federation; and three of its units are Crossref DOI-registering members. There is no central developer portal, no API key issuance, no open-data platform, no llms.txt, no MCP server and no published OpenAPI anywhere on tohoku.ac.jp. Public course information is served as HTML by the university's own QuickSyllabus, not as an API.
Tohoku University is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and Japan.
The Tohoku University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
Tohoku University’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, documentation, and 18 more developer resources.
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Public, anonymous, read-only GraphQL API for jMorp — the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), an institute of Toho...
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the departmental set hierarchy and the administrative contact (syskan@grp.tohok...
Tohoku University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management federation operated by NII. entityID https://idp.auth.tohoku....
Three Tohoku University units are Crossref members registering DOIs under their own prefixes, verified against api.crossref.org on 2026-09-01 — member 622 Tohoku University Medi...
Tohoku University's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID 01dq60k83, carrying the English, romanized and Japanese names and the canonical institutional URL. The identifi...
aid: tohoku
name: Tohoku University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: '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 programmable footprint is small, unevenly distributed, and
mostly NOT operated by central IT — which is the honest shape for a university, and the profile says so rather than padding
it. Exactly one unambiguously institution-operated API was found: jMorp, the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published
by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization at jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp, which answers anonymous GraphQL queries and
full schema introspection over a 305-field read-only query root. Everything else is a relationship rather than a contract:
the TOUR institutional repository is a tenant on NII''s JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) with a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint; the university
operates its own SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider registered in the GakuNin national academic federation; and three
of its units are Crossref DOI-registering members. There is no central developer portal, no API key issuance, no open-data
platform, no llms.txt, no MCP server and no published OpenAPI anywhere on tohoku.ac.jp. Public course information is served
as HTML by the university''s own QuickSyllabus, not as an API.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free · anonymous, no registration
confidence: high
source:
- probed
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tohoku.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tohoku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Japan
- National University
- Public Research University
- Genomics
- Research Data
- Institutional Repository
- Identity Federation
- Course Catalog
- Library
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- GraphQL
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tohoku:jmorp-graphql
name: jMorp GraphQL API (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)
x-operator: institution
description: 'Public, anonymous, read-only GraphQL API for jMorp — the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by
the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), an institute of Tohoku University. Runs on the university''s own registrable
domain, so the contract is genuinely Tohoku''s engineering rather than a vendor''s product wearing the university''s name.
Verified live on 2026-09-01: full __schema introspection returns 6.7 MB of JSON describing 4,470 types; query_root exposes
305 fields covering variants (clinvar, dbnsfp, dbsnp, GATK CNV, ExpansionHunter), GENCODE gene models and cross-references
(Entrez, UniProt, RefSeq, PDB, HGNC), and dataset catalog entries with a dtaRequired flag for controlled-access data.
There is a subscription root but no mutation root. No authentication, no API key, no rate-limit headers, no published
OpenAPI and no vendor documentation of the interface.'
humanURL: https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/
baseURL: https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/api/graphql
tags:
- GraphQL
- Genomics
- Multi-Omics
- Research Data
- Biobank
- Open Access
properties:
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/tohoku-jmorp-schema.graphql
- type: Documentation
url: graphql/tohoku-jmorp-graphql.md
- type: Examples
url: examples/tohoku-jmorp-datasets-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/tohoku-jmorp-gene-lookup-example.json
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/tohoku-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/tohoku-jmorp-errors.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/english/
- aid: tohoku:tour-oai-pmh
name: TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: tenant
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the departmental
set hierarchy and the administrative contact (syskan@grp.tohoku.ac.jp) are Tohoku University's; the endpoint itself is
NII JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) running on nii.ac.jp, so this is recorded as a tenant relationship and NII's contract is deliberately
NOT saved under this institution. Verified live 2026-09-01 — Identify returns repositoryName "Tohoku University Repository（TOUR）",
protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2016-06-09; ListMetadataFormats returns oai_dc, jpcoar_1.0, jpcoar_2.0, ddi and
lom.
humanURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/
baseURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Institutional Repository
- Open Access
- Metadata
- JPCOAR
- Dublin Core
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/support/openaccess/
- type: Examples
url: examples/tohoku-tour-oai-pmh-identify-example.json
- aid: tohoku:gakunin-shibboleth-idp
name: GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider
x-operator: federation
description: Tohoku University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management
federation operated by NII. entityID https://idp.auth.tohoku.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth, OrganizationName "Tohoku University
/ 東北大学", shibmd:Scope auth.tohoku.ac.jp, HTTP-Redirect binding for SingleSignOn and SingleLogout. Confirmed in the GakuNin
aggregate metadata on 2026-09-01. A federation is shared by definition, but the IdP behind it is the institution's — this
is one of the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surfaces the university has. The SSO endpoint is hosted
for Tohoku by SECIOSS (slink.secioss.com), so the entity is theirs and the operation is outsourced; both facts are recorded
rather than one being hidden.
humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/en/
baseURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
tags:
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Identity Federation
- GakuNin
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/tohoku-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/tohoku-conformance.yml
- aid: tohoku:crossref-membership
name: Crossref DOI Registration Membership
x-operator: registry
description: Three Tohoku University units are Crossref members registering DOIs under their own prefixes, verified against
api.crossref.org on 2026-09-01 — member 622 Tohoku University Medical Press (10.1620, 11,651 DOIs), member 1484 Mathematical
Institute, Tohoku University (10.2748, 3,004 DOIs), member 2470 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
(10.4036, 575 DOIs). This is a membership fact about the institution, not a contract it publishes; Crossref's own API
is Crossref's and is not saved here.
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/622
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/622
tags:
- Crossref
- DOI
- Registry
- Scholarly Publishing
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/tohoku-conformance.yml
- aid: tohoku:ror-registration
name: ROR Organization Record
x-operator: registry
description: Tohoku University's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID 01dq60k83, carrying the English, romanized
and Japanese names and the canonical institutional URL. The identifier that makes the Crossref member records, the OAI-PMH
metadata and the federation entity joinable to one another. Verified 2026-09-01.
humanURL: https://ror.org/01dq60k83
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/01dq60k83
tags:
- ROR
- Registry
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research Organizations
properties:
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/tohoku-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/cl-tohoku
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tohoku-univ/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/misc/privacy_policy.html
- type: Support
url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/misc/contact.html
- type: Blog
url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/support/openaccess/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://opac.library.tohoku.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/?lang=1&smode=1
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://qsl.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/qsl/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.cc.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://olg.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/forstaff/ai-tools
- type: OpenData
url: https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/tohoku-context.jsonld
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/tohoku-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/tohoku-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/tohoku-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/tohoku-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/tohoku-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'The full public surface was reached with no wall. One genuinely institution-operated API was found and exercised
anonymously end to end — the jMorp GraphQL endpoint at jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp, including a complete 6.7 MB schema
introspection and two live domain queries that returned real data. The TOUR OAI-PMH endpoint answered Identify, ListMetadataFormats
and ListSets. Tohoku''s Shibboleth IdP was confirmed inside the 5.65 MB GakuNin aggregate metadata, and three Crossref
memberships and the ROR record were confirmed against their registries'' APIs. The absences are real, not blocked: tohoku.ac.jp
serves no llms.txt, no /.well-known/security.txt, no OpenAPI, no MCP server, no agent card and no developer portal; DataCite
returns zero providers matching Tohoku; the UNIPA guest syllabus entry point was in scheduled maintenance (HTTP 503) while
QuickSyllabus, the university''s own public course catalog, served normally as HTML with no JSON interface behind it.
Japanese- language surfaces were searched as well as English ones, which is how the generative-AI guidance and the QuickSyllabus
entry point were found.'
evidence:
- url: https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/api/graphql
status: 200
- url: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=tohoku
status: 200
- url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/01dq60k83
status: 200
- url: https://qsl.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/qsl/
status: 200
- url: https://opac.library.tohoku.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/?lang=1&smode=1
status: 200
- url: https://olg.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/forstaff/ai-tools
status: 200
- url: https://www.cc.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=tohoku
status: 200
- url: https://unipa.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/uprx/up/pk/pky001/Pky00101.xhtml?guestlogin=Kmh006
status: 503
- url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://data.tohoku.ac.jp/
status: 0
- url: https://api.tohoku.ac.jp/
status: 0
checked: '2026-09-01'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
Tohoku University API — frequently asked questions
Does Tohoku University have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Tohoku University, including jMorp GraphQL API (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization), TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH and GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider, and 2 more.
How do I authenticate with the Tohoku University API?
Tohoku University uses bearer-token authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tohoku Authentication.
How much does the Tohoku University API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Tohoku University, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Tohoku University API ready for AI agents?
Tohoku University has a Kin Score of 23.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 4.4 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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