was a

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politician. He served as

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of Japan from 1978 to 1979.

Career

Kaneko was a member of the

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(LDP) and part of the Ikeda faction led by

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. Kaneko was the chairman of the LDP's tax system research council. He ran for

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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. He served as the head of the Osaka Tax Bureau until 1978. He was appointed minister of finance in the

Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980. Born in Kagawa Prefecture, Ōhira worked in the Ministry of Finance from 1936, and served as the private secretary to Hayato Ikeda, finance mi ...

's cabinet on 8 December 1978, replacing

Tatsuo Murayama was a Japanese politician who was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and finance minister for two times. Early life Tatsuo Murayama was born in 1915. Career Murayama was a tax expert and helped the development of the tax overhaul ...

in the post. Kaneko was in office until 8 November 1979. He was part of the faction led by Masayoshi Ohira in the LDP during this period. Then Kaneko served as the director of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA) in the mid-1980s.

Personal life

Kaneko's eldest son

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is also a politician and held different cabinet portfolios, including transport minister.

References

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaneko, Ippei 20th-century Japanese politicians 1913 births 1989 deaths Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Ministers of finance of Japan Politicians from Gifu Prefecture