Career
He served as finance minister of Japan from 1978 to 1979. Kaneko was the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party"s tax system research council. He worked at the ministry of finance as bureaucrat and had experience on tax policy.
He served as the head of the Osaka Tax Bureau until 1978.
He was appointed minister of finance in the Masayoshi Ohira’s cabinet on 8 December 1978, replacing Tatsuo Murayama in the post. Kaneko was in office until 8 November 1979.
Then he served as the director of the Economic Planning Agency (Environmental Protection Agency) in the mid-1980s.