Dr. Harada was educated in Japan, achieved his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University, and was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at Texas A&M University. He has held positions with the National Institute of Fitness and Sport and Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences before taking up his current position as a professor on the faculty of sports sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has also held positions as the past president of the Asian Association for Sports Management and the president of the Japan Association for Sport Management (JASM) and is a director of the Japan Volleyball League (JVA) and the chairman of the Japan Sport Tourism Alliance (JSTA). He is a well-published author on sports management, sports marketing, sports tourism, and leisure studies.