| Office: | Minister of Finance of Japan |
| Predecessor: | Tatsuo Murayama |
| Primeminister: | Masayoshi Ohira |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Birth Date: | 1913 2, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Takayama, Gifu, Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Term Start: | 8 December 1978 |
| Term End: | 8 November 1979 |
[1] was a Japanese politician. He served as finance minister of Japan from 1978 to 1979.
Kaneko was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and part of the Ikeda faction led by Hayato Ikeda. Kaneko was the chairman of the LDP's tax system research council.[2] He ran for Diet seat in the 1960 general election as a member of the Ikeda faction.
He worked at the ministry of finance as bureaucrat and had experience on tax policy.[3] He served as the head of the Osaka Tax Bureau until 1978.[3]
He was appointed minister of finance in the Masayoshi Ohira's cabinet on 8 December 1978, replacing Tatsuo Murayama in the post.[4] Kaneko was in office until 8 November 1979.[5] He was part of the faction led by Masayoshi Ohira in the LDP during this period.[6] Then Kaneko served as the director of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA) in the mid-1980s.[7] [8]
Kaneko's eldest son Kazuyoshi Kaneko is also a politician[9] and held different cabinet portfolios, including transport minister.[10]
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