Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: akanga ari mutyairi wendege muImperial Japanese Navy uye muvambi weImperial Japanese Navy Air Service. Kaneko akaberekerwa muHiroshima Prefecture. Akadzidza paShudo Junior uye Senior High School uye Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. Somukuru wemauto ehondo akapinda muhondo yeTsushima (Hondo yeNaval yeGungwa reJapan) panguva yeHondo yeRussia neJapan. Muna 1911 Kaneko akatumirwa kuFrance ndokudzidziswa kuva mutyairi wendege. Muna 1912, paYokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, Kaneko akaita ndege yokutanga munhau yehondo yeJapan, achibhururuka ndege yeFarman kwemaminitsi 15. Muna 1914 Kaneko navamwe vakuru vakuru vengarava vaviri vakabhururuka basa mu
Kukombwa kweTsingtao munguva yeHondo Yenyika I, uko kwaiva kurwisa kwokutanga kwemhepo munhoroondo yezvikepe zveJapan. Akagadzwa mutungamiri wekutanga uye mudzidzisi weImperial Japanese Navy Air Service muna 1916 uye akabatsira mukusimudzirwa kweSevhisi. Kaneko akasimudzirwa kuva mukuru mukuru muna 1926.