[2] Kaneko was the chairman of the LDP's tax system research council.
[3] He ran for Diet seat in the 1960 general election as a member of the Ikeda faction.
[2] He was appointed minister of finance in the Masayoshi Ōhira's cabinet on 8 December 1978, replacing Tatsuo Murayama in the post.
[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.