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TOKYO, JAPAN - AUG. 25: Olympic minister Toshiaki Endo said Tuesday he cannot guarantee the new National Stadium will be delivered by January 2020 as requested by the International Olympic Committee. "It was going to be April on a very tight schedule," Endo said, referring to the construction plans for the main Olympic stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Games. "We can ask the contractors to push it, but we have no idea if it's doable." "Securing the materials, the workers and technicians is difficult so we can't shorten the schedule easily," he said. Endo, along with Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori, met on Tuesday with IOC vice president John Coates, the head of the Coordination Commission for the Tokyo Olympics. Coates asked Endo to have the stadium ready by January 2020 so the organizing committee would have ample time to run a battery of tests before the Games open in August, but it appears Tokyo may not be able to oblige. Coates also made it clear during the meeting that the IOC is not demanding the stadium have a minimum capacity of 80,000, which was the number of seats set for the old design scrapped by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The government is expected to come up with a new plan possibly by the end of this month, detailing the stadium's costs and construction schedule. "I think we'll be able to find a way to keep it under 200 billion yen," Endo said of the budget.