Tokyo 2020 OlympicsOlympics delay to cost Japan $6bn in economic losses
Corporate sponsors and hotels to miss windfall, while rebooking venues is difficult
Japan -- and the corporate sponsors that have spent an estimated $3 billion -- are bracing for a postponement of the Tokyo Olympics. © Getty Images
RURIKA IMAHASHI and FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei Staff writers
TOKYO -- Japan is faced with the possibility of $6 billion in economic losses if the Tokyo Summer Games do not proceed as planned, now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the International Olympic Committee acknowledged for the first time Monday that a postponement was on the table due to the coronavirus pandemic.