Ippei Kaneko

Ippei Kaneko (金子 一平, Kaneko Ippei, 12 February 1913 – 28 March 1989)[1] was a Japanese politician. He served as finance minister of Japan from 1978 to 1979.

Ippei Kaneko
Minister of Finance of Japan
In office
8 December 1978 – 8 November 1979
Prime MinisterMasayoshi Ohira
Preceded byTatsuo Murayama
Personal details
Born(1913-02-12)12 February 1913
Takayama, Gifu, Japan
Died28 March 1989(1989-03-28) (aged 76)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party

Career

Kaneko was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and part of the Ikeda faction led by Hayato Ikeda.[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 worked at the ministry of finance as bureaucrat and had experience on tax policy.[2] He served as the head of the Osaka Tax Bureau until 1978.[2]

He was appointed minister of finance in the Masayoshi Ohira's cabinet on 8 December 1978, replacing Tatsuo Murayama in the post.[4] Kaneko was in office until 8 November 1979.[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.[7][8]

Personal life

Kaneko's eldest son Kazuyoshi Kaneko is also a politician[9] and held different cabinet portfolios, including transport minister.[10]

References
  1. "Japanese Ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  2. J. Robert Brown Jr. (1999). The Ministry of Finance: Bureaucratic Practices and the Transformation of the Japanese Economy. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. ISBN 978-1567202304.
  3. Junko Kato (1994). The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780691034515. JSTOR j.ctt7rnn2.
  4. "Fiscal Policy before the First Oil Crisis" (PDF). Ministry of Finance. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  5. "Persons". US State Department. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  6. Donald W. Klein (January 1979). "Japan 1978: The Consensus Continues". Asian Survey. 19 (1): 32. doi:10.2307/2643652. JSTOR 2643652.
  7. "Japan Report" (PDF). FBIS. 11 February 1985. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  8. Edward J. Lincoln (1988). Japan, Facing Economic Maturity. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0815752592.
  9. Hussain Khan (3 October 2003). "Japan: Reality starts to set in". Asia Times. Tokyo. Archived from the original on 11 October 2003. Retrieved 4 September 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. "Cabinet Profiles". The Japan Times. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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