Takashi Kasahara

Takashi Kasahara
Personal information
Full name	Takashi Kasahara
Date of birth	March 26, 1918
Place of birth	Japan
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Keio University
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Keio BRB
National team
1940	Japan
Honours
Keio University
Keio BRB
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Takashi Kasahara (笠原隆, Kasahara Takashi, March 26, 1918 – ?) was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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Kasahara was born on March 26, 1918. He played for Keio University. He won the 1937 Emperor's Cup. He also played for Keio BRB which was consisted of his alma mater Keio University players and graduates. He won the 1939 and 1940 Emperor's Cup at the club with Yukio Tsuda, Hirokazu Ninomiya and Saburo Shinosaki. 1940 Emperor's Cup was the last Emperor's Cup before the war because Emperor's Cup was suspended for World War II from 1941 to 1945.

On June 16, 1940, when Kasahara was a Keio University student, he debuted for the Japan national team against Philippines and Japan won the match. This match was the first match since 1936 Summer Olympics and the only match in the 1940s in Japan's "International A Match" due to World War II.