Kaikō Takeshi 開高 健
Kaikō Takeshi
Lahir	(1930-12-30)30 Desember 1930 Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Jepang
Meninggal	9 Desember 1989(1989-12-09) (umur 58) Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Jepang
Pekerjaan	penulis, jurnalis
Genre	novel, cerpen, esay

Takeshi Kaikō (開高 健code: ja is deprecated , Kaikō Takeshi, juga "Kaikō Ken", 30 Desember 1930 – 9 Desember 1989) adalah seorang novelis, penulis cerpen, esayis, kritikus sastra dan penulis dokumenter televisi asal Jepang. Ia adalah salah satu penulis Jepang paling populer pada akhir zaman Shōwa.

• Powell, Irena. Japanese Writer in Vietnam: The Two Wars of Kaiko Ken (1931-89). Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 219–244

• Japan's Threepenny Opera, 1959.
• English translations
  • Into a Black Sun, (English language edition: Kodansha America (1981). ISBN 0-87011-428-X
  • Five Thousand Runaways Dodd, Mead (1987)
  • Darkness in Summer (with Cecilia Segawa Seigle), Peter Owen (1989). ISBN 0-7206-0725-6
  • Giants and Toys, in: Made in Japan and Other Japanese Business Novels, transl.: Tamae K. Prindle. (1990). ISBN 0-87332-772-1
  • A Certain Voice in: Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories, ed. by Makoto Ueda

• Kaiko Takeshi Memorial Museum, Chigasaki, Kanagawa (Japanese site) Diarsipkan 2020-11-01 di Wayback Machine.
• Takeshi Kaiko's grave