After he received his Bachelor in Social Sciences from Waseda University in 1983, he received his M.S. from Tsukuba University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1995. He has attained industrial experience since 1983 at software development companies. Having been an Associate Professor in the faculty of Engineering at Yamanashi University since 1997, he is now a Professor in the faculty of Software and Information Science at Iwate Prefectural University since 2005.
He is a member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (JCSS), and the Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing. He was also the primary manager of the Literature, Cognition, and Computer (LCC) research group at the JCSS.
He received the JSAI best paper award (1996), best paper award from the Japan Academy of Advertising (1996), and other academic awards. In addition to many papers, he has published academic books, including Monogatariron no Jōhogaku Josetu (An Introduction to the Informatics of Narratology) (T. Ogata & A. Kanai, 2010, Tokyo: Gakubunsha), Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology (T. Ogata & T. Akimoto, 2016, IGI Global), Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation (T. Ogata & S. Asakawa, 2017, IGI Global), Jōho Monogatariron (Informational Narratology) (T. Ogata, Y. Kawamura, & A. Kanai, 2018, Tokyo: Hakutō Shobō), Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches (T. Ogata & T. Akimoto, 2019, IGI Global), Toward an Integrated Approach to Narrative Generation: Emerging Research and Opportunities (T. Ogata, 2020, IGI Global), and Internal and External Narrative Generation Based on Post-Narratology: Emerging Research and Opportunities. (T. Ogata, 2020, IGI Global). Furthermore, he is currently writing and editing two books related to his concept of post-narratology by Japanese.
His research interests include the following broad areas: (1) Computer science and information technologies (including narrative (story) generation (system), artificial intelligence, cognitive science, natural language processing and generation, ontology and conceptual dictionary), (2) Humanities (including narratology, literary theories, semiotics, semantics, discourse theory, philosophy, kabuki and Japanese arts and entertainments, Japanese narratologies and literary theories), and (3) Social sciences (including content business, marketing and advertising studies, sociology, social philosophy).