Ippei Kaneko

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

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.

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. ^ a b c d 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.
House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by
Kunikichi Saito
 Chair, Finance Committee of the House of Representatives of Japan
1972 		Succeeded by
Soichi Kamoda
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Finance
1978–1979 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Head of the Economic Planning Agency
1984–1985 		Succeeded by