Tokyo  - Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell to a four-year low Monday on worries about the financial crisis, despite US Congressional approval of a Wall Street bail-out.

The benchmark Nikkei index ended the morning trading at 10,544.33, down 393.81 points, or 3.60 per cent.

The broader Topix index of all first-section issues also fell 42.44 points, or 4.05 per cent, to 1,005.53.

It is the first trading day in Tokyo since the US Lower House approved Friday, after tough negotiations, the 700-billion-dollar rescue package for the financial sector.

Tokyo  - Chemical tests in Japan have confirmed that a Chinese-produced chocolate containing the chemical melamine was imported into Japan, local media reported Sunday, adding that the government in the city of Osaka has called on the importer NS International to recall the sweets from markets.

According to the reports, shopowners throughout Japan had already removed the product "Chocolate Pillows" from their shelves. NS International since January had imported around 798,000 packages of the sweet, which was produced in Shanghai, China.

Tokyo  - Japan's Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by a homeless man and ruled that he cannot register a public park as his address.

A homeless man who lives in a tent at a park in western Japanese city of Osaka had appealed the January 2007 ruling of Osaka High Court that rejected his claim to register a park as his home address.

The high court overturned the district court's decision and refused to recognize the park usable as a personal address "based upon sound social norms," Kyodo News Agency reports said.

Yuji Yamauchi, 58, has lived in the park since 1998 and tried to convince the local government that the city-managed space was his personal address. But the city refused to accept it.

Tokyo - Japanese securities house Nomura Holdings Inc has reached a basic agreement to purchase Indian units of failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, Japan's Nikkei business daily said Friday.

The Nikkei reported that Nomura, Japan s biggest securities firm, would take over the information technology development and back-office operations of Lehman Brothers as well as more than 2,000 employees in India.

Tokyo - Japanese securities house Nomura Holdings Inc has reached a basic agreement to purchase Indian units of failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, Japan's Nikkei business daily said Friday.

The Nikkei reported that Nomura, Japan s biggest securities firm, would take over the information technology development and back-office operations of Lehman Brothers as well as more than 2,000 employees in India.

Tokyo - Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell below the 11,000-point-mark Friday hitting the lowest since May 2005 following overnight plunges on the Wall Street.

The benchmark Nikkei index ended the morning trading at 10,996.98, down 157.78 points, or 1.41 per cent.

The broader Topix index of all first-section issues also fell 25.09 points, or 2.33 per cent, to 1,051.88.