Tōta Kaneko was born on September 23, 1919 in Kumagaya, and died on February 20, 2018.

He was a Japanese writer.

Kaneko was a student at the University of Tokyo and worked for the Bank of Japan.

Kaneko began to write poems (haiku) helped by his father Mitsuharu Kaneko.

He died on February 20, 2018 of Acute respiratory distress syndrome in Kumagaya, Saitama at the age of 98