[2] She read a lot while she was ill in bed, especially fairy tales from foreign countries.

Toward the end of the war she had to work in a factory as part of the National Mobilization Law.

Her 2003 book, Kaimu (海霧), won the Yoshikawa Eiji Award [ja][1] Harada died of pneumonia in Sapporo on October 20, 2009.

[2] Harada's books are usually about sensitive young women who suffer from various ailments.

Her protagonists often long for the kind of love where they can feel protected and understood, but still have freedom and self-determination.