In March 1976, he graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College and joined Tsuchida Production soon afterward.
Following Tsuchida's dissolution in March 1983, Ogawa established Studio 501.
[2] He notably served as the animation director of Crayon Shin-chan.
In 2006, he was inaugurated as a professor in Kyoto Seika University's animation department.
On August 7, 2013, at 9:20 A.M., Ogawa died from a stomach cancer-induced colon infection at the age of 62.