Tokyo hotels wait for '2021 Olympics' with empty guest logs to fill

Delay of games adds to coronavirus impact as foreigners stay away

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The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo had held several hundred rooms for the organizers of the Olympics. (Photo courtesy of the Imperial Hotel) 

RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- A day after the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed by a year, Tokyo's landmark Imperial Hotel began arrangements to release the several hundred rooms it had withheld for organizers of the games during the July-September period.

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