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Tohoku University (tohoku.ac.jp) scores 46 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Early Stage tier among Education brands, in the 1st percentile of 17561 Education brands.
Tohoku University is a higher education institution in Japan, categorized under Education. It combines advanced scientific research with community outreach, aiming to make science accessible and impactful for society. The university serves prospective and current students, researchers, academics, and the general public interested in higher education and scientific advancement. Its mission emphasizes excellence in research and education, contributing knowledge and innovation to society.
| Brand Name | Tohoku University |
|---|---|
| Domain | tohoku.ac.jp |
| Industry | Education |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Yamagata Prefecture, Japan |
| Main Competitors | University of Tokyo (60/100), Kyoto University (82/100), Osaka University (39/100), Nagoya University (39/100), Hokkaido University, Kyushu University |
Moz Domain Authority 79/100 vs category average 48 / leader 99 - a strong backlink profile, so AI systems frequently encounter mentions of the brand.
Ranked #13,872 on the Tranco list of most-visited sites - strong traffic reinforces the brand's prominence to AI models.
Tohoku University appears on Wikipedia but without a dedicated company entity, so AI models can confuse it with similarly named subjects.
The homepage meta description reads "Skip to main content Skip to navigation" (Meta description: 7 words. OG description present but brief) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: og:title, og:description. Adding Organization and FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: No robots.txt found (default: all bots allowed, but explicit file preferred) - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Social footprint: verified profiles on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram; no detected presence on LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked October 2026.
When asked "What is Tohoku University?", Claude could identify the brand as of October 2026. Tohoku University is a prestigious national university in Sendai, Japan, founded in 1907 as one of the country's original Imperial Universities. It is well regarded for its research strength, particularly in materials science, and for being the first Japanese university to admit Best known for Being a top Japanese research university especially strong in materials science and engineering.
When asked "Best brands similar to Tohoku University?", Claude would recommend Tohoku University as of October 2026. It's consistently ranked among Japan's best universities and a natural mention alongside other top Japanese institutions like University of Tokyo or Kyoto University.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
Tohoku University's main competitors in Education: University of Tokyo (60/100), Kyoto University (82/100), Osaka University (39/100), Nagoya University (39/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
Tohoku University has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 45/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 53, trust 27, recommendation 51). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: Tohoku University official site
Tohoku University was founded in 1991. Tohoku University operates in the Education category. It is analyzed by Brand Analyzer across seven brand dimensions and AI-search visibility.
Sources: Wikidata
Tohoku University scores 51/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Education options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority; a Wikipedia presence helps.
Sources: Tohoku University official site
Tohoku University can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: Tohoku University official site
Tohoku University scores 45/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
Tohoku University has a limited AI-visibility profile at 45/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is visibility (53/100) and its weakest is trust (27/100). It benefits from a Wikidata knowledge-graph entry, a global traffic rank of #13,872 (Tranco) and a Moz Domain Authority of 79/100. The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, thin schema.org structured data and no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify Tohoku University from memory (October 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to Tohoku University: Study in Germany (46/100), Pension Research Council (46/100), Uplift Families (46/100), PolicyGovernance.com (Carver Policy Governance Model) (45/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Yuansouti (56/100), WikiCFP (56/100).
Category leader: Canva (97/100).
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