TOKYO - A gaffe-prone Japanese minister apologized Wednesday for comments he made expressing his disappointment over swimming star Rikako Ikee's leukemia diagnosis, saying they were insensitive to the gold medal hopeful at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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