Career
Apart from her Olympic career, Kaneto also demolished both a Japanese and Asian record of 2:20.72 at the Japan University Championships in Kumamoto. Kaneto is a physical education graduate at Tokai University in Hiroshima. Kaneto made her international swimming debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, quickly claiming a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke by less than 0.04 of a second behind South of Korea"s Jung Seul-ki in 2:25.63.
Kaneto"s best effort at these Games vaulted her up to twelfth in the world rankings.
Kaneto earned her first selection to the Japanese team to compete in the women"s 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she placed second behind Megumi Taneda at the Olympic trials in Tokyo with a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:26.28.
Kaneto touched out Taneda to take the seventh spot in the final by nine hundredths of a second (009), in an outstanding time of 2:25.14. At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Kaneto set an Asian and Japanese mark of 2:22.32 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title, just a single hundredth margin off her record from the national championships (2:2233).