Tokyo Olympics knock hundreds of conventions off track

Organizers scramble to find different venues -- or cancel in 2019 and 2020

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Tokyo Big Sight will not be available for exhibitions and other events while it serves as the media center during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. © Reuters

HISASHI TSUTSUI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- The 2020 Summer Olympics threaten to upend the schedules of hundreds of exhibitions and conventions in the months surrounding the Tokyo Games.

The largest convention center in Japan, Tokyo Big Sight, will house the media center during the Olympics. Over 200 exhibitions will need to change venues or cancel events altogether, according to the Japan Exhibition Association, or JEXA. Those changes could impact more than 80,000 corporate participants.

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