(Straits Times - Singapore/AP/AFP) - Japan's Vice-Minister for Health has apologized to the Israeli ambassador and retracted a comment he made this week that was criticized as anti-Semitic. In a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday, Mr. Yoshio Kimura said, 'There are many money-grubbers like Jews," referring to certain businesses trying to enter the health-care industry.
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