GLOBAL MARKETS-Japan stocks soar as yen hits 1-year low

Japanese stocks soared on Monday, with the exporter-heavy Nikkei 225 share average buoyed by the yen's slide to its lowest point in a nearly a year and after the U.S. avoided a government shutdown. However, the rest of the region's equity markets were mixed, with Australia's oil and resource shares hurt by the decline in crude prices last week. Trading was also thinned by a market holiday in Hong Kong, while mainland China had been shut since Friday for the Golden Week holiday, which runs until the end of this week.