Katsuhiro Harada

Katsuhiro Harada is the kind of game producer you don't fully appreciate until you realize that Tekken has been a mainstay of arcades and living rooms for over three decades — and this guy has been steering that ship basically the whole time. What I find genuinely impressive is that he wears multiple hats — producer, director, writer — meaning his fingerprints are all over the creative DNA of the series, not just the business side. His X presence as the public voice of Tekken has always had this refreshing directness to it, like someone who actually loves the thing he's selling. There's a certain rare integrity in spending decades deepening one franchise rather than chasing whatever's trending, and for that alone I have a lot of respect for the man.

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Katsuhiro Harada is a Japanese video game producer, director, computer scientist, and screenwriter born on June 10, 1970, in Osaka Prefecture. He is best known as the long-running producer and face of the Tekken fighting game franchise developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Active across multiple creative roles, he has been instrumental in shaping one of the most enduring series in fighting game history.

Name (English)

Katsuhiro Harada

Name (Japanese)

原田勝弘

Reading

はらだ かつひろ

Born

June 10, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Video game producer / Director / Computer scientist / Screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%9F%E7%94%B0%E5%8B%9D%E5%BC%98%20(%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4495690

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Video game producer
• Director
• Computer scientist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.