TOKYO, March 3 (Reuters) - Oriental Land, the operator of Tokyo Disney Resort, and Japan Airlines (JAL) will be added to the Nikkei 225 index in a reshuffle of the benchmark, the publisher of the stock average said on Friday.

Renesas Electronics Corp, the world's leading maker of automobile chips, will also be a new addition, while Toyobo , Nippon Light Metal Holdings and Toho Zinc will be excluded from the index, the Nikkei said.

(Reporting by Junko Fujita; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Christian Schmollinger)