Tohoku University

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