Career
As throughout most of his sailing career, Harada currently trains for the ABeam Consulting Team under his personal coach and mentor Kazunori Komatsu. As of September 2013, Harada is ranked northern 190 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.
Harada qualified to compete in the men"s 470 class at the 2012 Olympic Games by finishing sixth at World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Teaming with Yoshida in the opening series, Harada skippered a spirited challenge on the fifth leg to deliver the Japanese duo a seventh spot in that leg, but they fell short of the medal race with an eighteenth-place finish on 131 Netto points.