Tokyo stocks rose more than 1% on Thursday as investors welcomed the decline of the yen and the rise of oil prices after an unexpected agreement for OPEC to trim crude output.

The Nikkei stock index was up 1.4% at 16,699.18 at the end of the morning session. The Topix index rose 0.9%, to 1343.25 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 added 1% to 12,024.04.

Source : QNA