, known by his pen name , was a Japanese writer of adventure fiction.
Funado was born as Kenji Harada on February 8, 1944. During his student days, he traveled to Alaska. He graduated from Waseda University. Funado wrote approximately 30 stories for the manga series Golgo 13, three of which he later novelized in 2011.
Funado made his debut as an adventure novel writer in 1979. After writing some prize-winning adventure novels, in 2000 he won the Naoki Prize for his novel May in the Valley of the Rainbow. In February 2015, he published the last volume of his nine-volume novel series on the history of Manchukuo.
Funado died of thymic cancer on April 22, 2015, in Suginami, Tokyo.