Takeshi Kaikō
 Takeshi Kaikō (開高 健 Kaikō Takeshi 30 December 1930 – 9 December 1989) was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist short-story writer essayist literary critic and television documentary writer. He was distinguished by his knowledge intellect sense of humor and conversational skills and although his style has been criticized as wordy and obtuse he was one of the more popular Japanese writers in the late Showa period.