Tohoku University

Tohoku University is a national research university in Sendai, Japan, founded in 1907 and ranked #107 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on scholarly infrastructure rather than a central developer portal: the TOUR (TOhoku University Repository) institutional repository runs on NII's JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) and exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for metadata harvesting. The library also operates a public OPAC. No central, self-service API developer portal, open-data platform, or SSO/OAuth client-registration program was found publicly documented; most research-code APIs live in individual lab GitHub organizations.

Tohoku University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Japan.

The Tohoku University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Tohoku University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 9 more developer resources.

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19.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

1 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchJapanOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHLibrary

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 19.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tohoku Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Library

Library

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Catalog

Catalog

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tohoku
name: Tohoku University
description: 'Tohoku University is a national research university in Sendai, Japan, founded in 1907 and ranked #107 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on scholarly infrastructure
  rather than a central developer portal: the TOUR (TOhoku University Repository) institutional repository runs on NII''s
  JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) and exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for metadata harvesting. The library also operates a public
  OPAC. No central, self-service API developer portal, open-data platform, or SSO/OAuth client-registration program was found
  publicly documented; most research-code APIs live in individual lab GitHub organizations.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
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:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Japan
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: tohoku:tour-oai-pmh
  name: TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository), the university's institutional
    repository hosted on NII JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3). Verified live, returning a valid Identify response ("Tohoku University Repository（TOUR）",
    protocol version 2.0). Supports oai_dc (Dublin Core), JPCOAR (1.0/2.0), DDI 2.5, and IEEE LOM metadata formats via standard
    verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord, ListSets, ListIdentifiers).
  humanURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Research
  - JPCOAR
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/support/openaccess/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tohoku-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cl-tohoku
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tohoku-univ/
- type: Library
  url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: Catalog
  url: https://opac.library.tohoku.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/?lang=1&smode=1
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Tohoku University

Kin Score

APIs 1

TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

Pricing Plans 1

Tohoku Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Tohoku Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Tohoku Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Tohoku Context

Security Posture 1

Tohoku Domain Security

Resources