Let's explore world trends from the best-selling books at Maruzen Marunouchi, one of Japan's largest general Bookstore!
Maruzen Marunouchi Main Store is one of Japan's largest general Bookstore, boasting a stock of approximately 1 million Japanese books and 120,000 foreign books under the concept of a "Book Museum" in Marunouchi, the forefront of business. What are the best-selling books in Marunouchi, the heart of business? Every two weeks, we will deliver the top 15 business books and the top 10 literary books, and at the beginning of each month, the overall top 5 books for the previous month.

Collection Period: Thu, May 22, 2025 to Wed, May 28, 2025
*The previous ranking is a comparison with May 8th Thu to May 14th Wed, 2025. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Business (Management) Top 15>
1st place:
Skill-Based Organization Textbook
2nd place:
The forefront of generative AI utilization (previously: 7th place)
3rd place:
Recommendation for capital cost management (previously: 2nd place)
4th place:
"Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2025 Edition (previously: 4th place)
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5th place:
Legal, tax and accounting of incentive compensation
6th place
: Practical Q&A for monthly settlement
7th place:
Accounting literacy (previously: 11th place)
8th place:
McKinsey Energy Competitive Strategy (previously: 3rd place)
9th place:
Takao Ozawa Business Theory for the Ordinary (15th place)
10th
Business Analysis: Starting with the Anomalies in Financial Statements (8th place)
11th
Where Have the Tapioca Shops Gone? (Not ranked)
12th
Introduction to Capital Costs with Illustrations and Stories (Not ranked)
Publishing
13th
Practical Commentary: Everything about the New Lease Accounting Standards (9th place)
14th
Add Value to This Omelette Rice (5th place)
15th
Nikkei Industry Map 2025 Edition (Not ranked)

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>
1st place
Management that breaks people (Last time: 3rd place)
2nd place
People who move do well (Last time: 2nd place)
No.3
The mindset that creates huge wealth (Last time: 7th place)
No.4
Immersive Reading
5th place
The essence of "how to communicate"
6th place
The science of rest that will save you from fatigue (Previously: 10th place)
7th place
A smart boss will never tell you the answer, even if he dies.
8th place
AI analysis reveals the reading habits of the top 5% of employees
No.9
DIE WITH ZERO The ultimate rules for making your life too rich (Last time: Not ranked)
10th place
How to sharpen your resolve: A translation by Yoshida Shoin (Last time: 6th place)
11th place
What is immediately useful soon becomes useless (Previously: 8th place)
12th place
New edition single point concentration technique
13th place
What do the world's best people do on their days off?
14th place
Walking is a habit that will seriously change your life (Previously: 5th place)
15th place
QUEST: The Philosophy (Previously: 4th place)

<Economics/Finance Top 15>
1st place:
Stiglitz: Capitalism and Freedom
2nd place:
Stock Investment to Save 100 Million in Five Years (previously: 1st place)
3rd place
: Everything Crashes and the New Order
4th place:
The Complete Guide to Real Estate as a Liberal Arts Course (previously: 3rd place)
5th place:
Financial Market Forecasting Handbook for Investors, 8th Edition (previously: 10th place)
6th place:
Learn Economics from Geography! (Previously: 5th place)
Inc.7th place
Manga: Statistics is the most powerful science (Previously: 8th place)
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Introduction to Japanese government bonds (Previously: 11th place)
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Techno-feudalism (Previously: 9th place)
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Trading games (Previously: 4th place)
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Corporate finance strategy and practice (Previously: not ranked)
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Real estate investment spoken frankly!!
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The super basics of money that you can't ask now: visual version (Previously: 7th place)
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Buffett's Laws of building billions of trillions of yen in stocks (Previously: not ranked)
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Wisdom and practice for true value investing

<Top 10 Literary Books>
1st place:
Kafune (1st place, last time)
2nd place:
No. 6 Reunion 1
3rd place:
The Song of Cyberspace by
4th place:
The Mysterious Scent Comes from the Bakery (2nd place, last time)
5th place:
Namima's Bad Food by
6th place:
Women's Diet (not ranked, last time)
7th place:
Ono Yoshimoto
8th place
: Let's Go! Heianbu (8th place, last time)
9th place:
Takamiya Maya's Handover Book (4th place, last time)
10th place:
Dancing Exhausted by

Collection Period: May 1st Thu to May 31st Sat 2025

1st place: How to Relearn English for People in Their 60s 2nd place : Kafune by 3rd place: Management that Breaks Down by 4th place: People who move around do well by 5th place: How Smart People Use ChatGPT & Copilot by