is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Early life

A native of Takayama, Gifu and graduate of

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

, his father is former minister of finance,

Ippei Kaneko was a Japanese politician. He served as finance minister of Japan from 1978 to 1979. Career 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 s ...

Career

Kaneko was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1986. In September 2008 he was appointed Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and succeeded

Nariaki Nakayama is a Japanese politician who has served as leader of Kibō no Tō was a conservative political party in Japan founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. The party was founded just before the call of the 2017 general election. The party's i ...

in the post.

References

External links

Official website
in Japanese. 1942 births Living people Keio University alumni People from Gifu Prefecture Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Ministers of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 21st-century Japanese politicians {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub