Counting Period: Thu, August 28, 2025 to Wed, September 3, 2025
*The previous ranking is a comparison with August 14th Thu to August 20th Wed. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Top 15 Business Management Topics>

1st place: My Boss, Toyoda Akio; Fujii Hideki/PHP Institute; 2nd place : "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously: 2nd place) Edited by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc.; 3rd place: Technology Security: What Can Science and Innovation Do for Peace?; Yamamoto Kohei/Nikkei Publishing; 4th place: Nikkei Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously: 3rd place) Edited by Nikkei Inc./Nikkei Publishing; 5th place: After AI (previously: 5th place) Shibata Naoki, Obara Kazuhiro/Nikkei BP; 6th place: Ozawa Takao: Map of Entrepreneurship, Kita Yasutoshi/Nikkei BP; 7th place: Report: The Trap of M&A Brokerage (previously: 6th place) Fujita Tomoya/Asahi Shimbun Publishing; 8th place: How Profits Work (previously: 4th place) Company Quarterly Report Industry Map Editorial Department/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 9th place: AI Agent Revolution (previously: not ranked) SIGMAXYZ/Nikkei BP 10th: Manager's Textbook, Kazuyoshi Komiya/Diamond Inc. 11th: Recommendations for Capital Cost Management (previously ranked 10th) by Masato Noguchi/Nikkei Publishing 12th: Yamashi Ken Fukazawa/Diamond Inc. 13th: Practical Commentary: Everything You Need to Know About the New Lease Accounting Standards (previously ranked 11th) by Tohmatsu/Chuo Keizai Inc. 14th: The World's Most Enjoyable Way to Read Financial Statements (previously ranked unranked) by Random Walker in Otemachi/KADOKAWA 15th: Eyes on Management, Eyes on the Economy , Takayuki Itami/Toyo Keizai Inc.

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>

1. Scientifically Proven Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits (previously ranked 1st) by Shugo Hotta/SB Creative; 2. People Who Move Around Succeed (previously ranked 3rd) by Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha; 3. Turning Unconventionality into a Weapon: The Turnaround Work Technique by Kuninari Suzuki/Sanno Institute of Management Press; 4. People Who Read Books Succeed (previously ranked 4th) by Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha ; 5. STOP OVERTHINKING by Nick Trenton/Diamond Inc.; 6. Essential Business Skills for Consultants in Their First Three Years by Yasutoshi Mochizuki/SB Creative; 7. Fatigue Science by Hideki Katano/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 8. Generative AI's Fastest Work Techniques (previously ranked unranked) by Jun Tatebayashi/Kanki Publishing ; 9. One Message by Mikito Sugino/Diamond Inc.; 10. One Habit (previously ranked 5th) by Naohiro Yokoyama/Subarusha ; 11. Science Identifies "Lucky People" (previously ranked 2nd) by Nobuko Nakano/Sunmark Publishing; 12. Popular Lectures from America's Top Universities (previously ranked 8th) by Saul Perlmutter Others / Nikkei BP 13th place THE CAPTAINSHIP Takeshi Okada, Yuichi Kudo / Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha 14th place Is it a person? When you can't communicate, it might be a crocodile (previously not ranked) Lena Skogholm / Sunmark Publishing 15th place Keyence's best way of working Shinji Saita / PHP Institute

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st Place: The Day Finance, Media, and IT Come Together Yoshitaka Kitao / SB Creative 2nd Place: Real Estate Classroom (Previous: 3rd Place) Tomohiro Makino / Yamato Shobo 3rd Place: Lessons from an Investor Father to His Daughter Who Turned 500,000 Yen into 5 Billion Yen (Previous: 1st Place) Ta-chan / Diamond Inc. 4th Place : Stock Investment to Save 100 Million Yen in 5 Years (Previous: 4th Place) Kenmo / Diamond Inc. 5th Place: Why Don't the World's Newly Wealthy Buy "Orkan S&P 500"? Saki Miyawaki / KADOKAWA 6th: World Upheaval (2nd place, last time) by Jim Rogers/Toyo Keizai Inc. 7th: The US Economy with Six Months to Live by Masuda Etsusa/Business Inc. 8th: A World History of Finance (13th place, last time) by Omura Keiichi/Nikkei Inc. 9th: The Fundamentals of Investing You're Too Afraid to Ask About (8th place, last time) by Izumi Michiko/Asahi Shimbun Publishing 10th: Money University to Gain True Freedom (15th place, last time) by Ryo @ Liber University President/Asahi Shimbun Publishing 11th: Will Nostalgia Destroy the World? by Agnes Arnold-Foerster/Toyo Keizai Inc. 12th: Buffett's Law: Building Billions of Dollars with Stocks (not ranked, last time) by Robert G. Hagstrom/Diamond Inc. 13th: "Ironclad Dividends" that Will Bring in 4.71 Million Yen a Year (9th place, last time) by​ Long-Term Stock Investment/KADOKAWA 14th: Raising the Resolution of Your Investments by Yorifuji Taiki/Impress 15th: Stiglitz Capitalism and Freedom (Previous: Not Ranked) by Joseph E. Stiglitz/Toyo Keizai Inc.

Top 10 Literary Books

1st place Lost Face Tomoya Sakurada/Shinchosha 2nd place White Mage's Cage Yamaguchi Mio/Tokyo Sogensha 3rd place In the Megachurch Ryo Asai/Nikkei BP 4th place Novel Exit 8 (Last time: 3rd place) Genki Kawamura/Suirinsha 5th place A short life that sparkles intensely Risa Wataya/Bungeishunju 6th place Hitman's Sales Tactics Yu Nomiya/Kodansha 7th place No swiping allowed Mikito Chinen/Futabasha 8th place Box of Tears (Previously: 2nd place) Han Kang/Hyoronsha 9th place Ghosts and Ghosts 20 Natsuhiko Kyogoku/KADOKAWA 10th place About a place in the Kinki region (Last time: Not ranked) Spine/KADOKAWA

Counting Period: August 1st Fri to August 31st Sun 2025

1st place: "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition, edited by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc. 2nd place: Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits, Scientifically Proven, by Shugo Hotta/SB Creative 3rd place : Masquerade Life, by Keigo Higashino/Shueisha 4th place: "The Valley of the Wind" Hope, by Kazuto Ataka/Eiji Publishing 5th place: People Who Move Succeed, by Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha