Kōmoto was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture and graduated from the junior high school attached to the School of Education at Okayama University before graduating from the prefectural Sōzan High School.
It was co-developed by Tomio Watanabe (渡辺富夫) from Okayama University, whose psychological theory inspired its design.
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During the following years he was a senior visiting fellow at AGSM, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales at Sydney, Australia in 1991-1992, a guest researcher at Okayama University, Japan in 1993 and at Université Évry in Paris in 1994.