Tokyo Institute of Technology

aid: tokyo-institute-of-technology
name: Tokyo Institute of Technology
x-type: university
x-category: Institute of Technology
description: 'Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech / Titech) was Japan''s leading national institute of technology and
  ranked #76 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. On 2024-10-01 it merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to
  form the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo); the corporate web presence moved to isct.ac.jp while most academic
  and service systems still run on titech.ac.jp. Its institution-operated programmable footprint is small and, as of 2026-08-30,
  shrinking. There is no developer portal, no public REST API, no open-data portal and no OAuth or OpenID Connect surface
  anywhere on its domains. What the institution genuinely operates and we verified live is two protocol endpoints: the T2R2
  research repository''s OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface (oai_dc and junii2), and a Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
  registered in GakuNin, Japan''s national academic access management federation. The first is being switched off — the operator
  published a discontinuation schedule on 2026-07-22 that ended T2R2 search on 2026-08-20 and ends T2R2 registration on 2026-10-01,
  moving full text to the Science Tokyo Repository on JAIRO Cloud, which is a TENANT surface run by NII and JPCOAR rather
  than by the university. The library discovery layer, the syllabus system, the STRDB researcher database and the TSUBAME4
  supercomputer service are all real institution-run systems with human interfaces only — none of them publishes a machine-readable
  contract.'
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: '2026-08-30'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · no signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tokyo-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Institute of Technology
- Japan
- Research
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tokyo-institute-of-technology:gakunin-shibboleth
  name: GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Entity https://idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth is present in the live GakuNin federation
    aggregate with OrganizationName "Institute of Science Tokyo" and OrganizationURL https://portal.titech.ac.jp/. The IdP
    host is under titech.ac.jp and is run by the institution's own information infrastructure centre.
  description: Shibboleth / SAML 2.0 Identity Provider for institutional single sign-on, registered in GakuNin, Japan's national
    academic access management federation operated by NII. Advertises the Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile, SAML 2.0 SSO
    over HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect, and SAML 1.0 / 2.0 SOAP AttributeQuery on port 8443. Published SAML metadata inside
    a national federation aggregate is the most machine-readable interface this institution operates. It is a federated authentication
    endpoint for institutional login, NOT a public OAuth or OpenID Connect developer API, and must not be counted as one.
    Verified 2026-08-30 in the live federation metadata document.
  humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/en
  baseURL: https://idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  - GakuNin
  - Identity Federation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gakunin.jp/en
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tokyo-institute-of-technology-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tokyo-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: tokyo-institute-of-technology:science-tokyo-repository-oaipmh
  name: Science Tokyo Repository OAI-PMH (JAIRO Cloud tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: Host isct.repo.nii.ac.jp is an institution-specific subdomain on repo.nii.ac.jp, the JAIRO Cloud platform
    jointly operated by the National Institute of Informatics and the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository, running
    WEKO3. The Identify response names adminEmail somu-lib@ml.tmd.ac.jp. The deposited content, the DOIs and the institutional
    identity are the university's; the contract and the software are the platform's. The generic WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud specification
    is deliberately NOT saved into this repo.
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the institution's tenancy on JAIRO Cloud — the successor repository named in the T2R2
    discontinuation notice as the destination for full-text research outputs. Identify returns repositoryName "Tokyo Medical
    and Dental University Institutional Repository" (the pre-merger medical-side name, not yet re-branded), protocolVersion
    2.0, earliestDatestamp 2017-04-27. Recorded here as a tenant relationship — a real institutional fact and one of the few
    programmable surfaces this university has — not as institution-built engineering.
  humanURL: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Tenants
  - JAIRO Cloud
  - WEKO3
  tags_raw:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Tenant
  - JAIRO Cloud
  - WEKO3
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tokyo-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: tokyo-institute-of-technology:ex-tic-gakunin-entity
  name: EX-TIC GakuNin SAML entity (tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: Host isct.ex-tic.com is an institution-specific subdomain on ex-tic.com, a commercial platform. The
    GakuNin aggregate registers it with OrganizationName "Institute of Science Tokyo" and OrganizationURL https://www.tmd.ac.jp
    — the institution's identity on a vendor's infrastructure.
  description: 'A second GakuNin-registered SAML 2.0 entity carrying the Institute of Science Tokyo identity, hosted on the
    commercial EX-TIC platform and pointing at the pre-merger medical/dental side of the institution. Advertises SAML 2.0
    HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect assertion endpoints. A bare GET returns HTTP 400 because the endpoint expects a POSTed assertion
    — correct behaviour for an assertion consumer, not a dead host. Recorded so the operator split inside the merged institution''s
    identity estate is visible: one federation entity the university runs itself, one it rents.'
  humanURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
  baseURL: https://isct.ex-tic.com/auth/gakunin/saml2/assertions
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - SAML
  - GakuNin
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - SAML
  - GakuNin
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tokyo-institute-of-technology-authentication.yml
- aid: tokyo-institute-of-technology:tokyo-institute-of-technology-oai-pmh-api
  name: Tokyo Institute of Technology OAI PMH API
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs. All six verbs are dispatched from a single path via the `verb` query parameter.
  humanURL: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html
  baseURL: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tokyo-institute-of-technology-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/tokyo-institute-of-technology-t2r2-oaipmh-examples.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tokyo-institute-of-technology-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/tokyo-institute-of-technology-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tokyo-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en
- type: Website
  url: https://www.titech.ac.jp/
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.titech.ac.jp/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html
- type: Support
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/inquiries
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/web-accessibility-policy
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/about/policies
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/science-tokyo
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/prg-titech
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sciencetokyo/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/sciencetokyo_en
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- type: ResearchDirectory
  url: https://strdb.s.isct.ac.jp/html/home_en.html
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://www.libra.titech.ac.jp/en
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://syllabus.s.isct.ac.jp/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.t4.cii.isct.ac.jp/en
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.t4.cii.isct.ac.jp/docs/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tokyo-institute-of-technology-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tokyo-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tokyo-institute-of-technology-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tokyo-institute-of-technology-errors.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/tokyo-institute-of-technology-t2r2-oaipmh-examples.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/tokyo-institute-of-technology-t2r2-oaipmh-openapi.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tokyo-institute-of-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tokyo-institute-of-technology-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tokyo-institute-of-technology-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tokyo-institute-of-technology-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/tokyo-institute-of-technology-context.jsonld
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Probed on 2026-08-30 across 30+ URLs on isct.ac.jp, titech.ac.jp and the national infrastructure the institution
    federates into. The profile is thin because the institution''s machine-readable footprint IS thin, not because we could
    not reach it: there is no developer portal, no REST API, no open-data portal and no OAuth/OIDC surface on any institution
    host. Everything institution-operated that we found is protocol-level — one OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and one Shibboleth/SAML
    IdP in the GakuNin federation aggregate — and the OAI-PMH one carries a published sunset (search ended 2026-08-20, registration
    ends 2026-10-01). Two further surfaces are tenant relationships on national and commercial platforms and are recorded
    as such rather than credited to the university. Three notes on what we could NOT read: isct.repo.nii.ac.jp returns HTTP
    406 to a plain curl User-Agent and serves normally to a browser-class client, so it was read that way and graded live;
    www.ocw.titech.ac.jp resolves but times out on every connection, with no successor notice found; and the generative-AI
    guideline, research policy and research-data policy are PDFs behind a CMS download plugin whose URL key rotates per request,
    so the AIPolicy pointer targets the stable policies page that carries them rather than an unstable file URL. Search was
    run in Japanese as well as English.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html
    status: 200
  - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/
    status: 406
  - url: https://isct.ex-tic.com/auth/gakunin/saml2/assertions
    status: 400
  - url: https://strdb.s.isct.ac.jp/html/home_en.html
    status: 200
  - url: https://syllabus.s.isct.ac.jp/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.t4.cii.isct.ac.jp/docs/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.libra.titech.ac.jp/en
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/about/policies
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/science-tokyo
    status: 200
  - url: https://search.star.titech.ac.jp/
    status: 500
  - url: https://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.isct.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.isct.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-30'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com