Career
Takaya Kawanabe signed for Omiya Ardija in 2007. In 2011 he moved to Tanjong Pagar United Football Club and scored 9 goals in 36 appearances for the club In February 2013 Kawanabe joined the Latvian Higher League club Football Club Jūrmala.
Later he played with FK Mladost Podgorica in the Montenegrin First League and next with FK Rudar Prijedor in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.