Nikkei edges up 0.3 pct in light quarter-end trade

* Nikkei rises 1.8 pct in July-Sept quarter

* Volume light at end of Japan's fiscal half-year

* Property stocks under pressure

* NGK Insulators jumps on upbeat full-year forecasts

By Masayuki Kitano

TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average rose 0.3 percent on Wednesday, with investors hesitant to trade actively ahead of a quarterly Japan corporate sentiment survey and U.S. jobs data later in the week.

Property stocks fell after a brokerage said that the time was needed to assess the risk from policy changes such as the likely tightening of capital adequacy rules for financial institutions, but NGK Insulators (5333.T) rallied after it raised its profit forecast.

A dip by the dollar below 90 yen JPY= also put some pressure on the benchmark.

The Nikkei rose 1.8 percent in July-September after surging nearly 23 percent in April-June for its biggest quarterly rise in about 14 years.