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Tokyo 2020 Olympics

How to spend it: Taisei juggles $1bn in stashed cash

Olympics bonanza brings in the yen, but company undecided on expenditures

Taisei was the lead contractor for Japan's new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, which was completed in November.

TOKYO -- The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been nothing short of a windfall for Japan's top four construction companies: Obayashi, Taisei, Shimizu and Kajima.

But of the quartet, only Taisei has emerged from the party with plenty of cash in its coffers.

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