Data collection Period: April 9th Thu- April 15th Wed, 2026
*The previous ranking is based on a comparison with the period from March 26th Thu to April 1st Wed, 2026. (Unless otherwise stated, it is a new release.)

<Top 15 Business (Management) Stories>

1st: ELG Ecosystem Red Growth , Toshinari Umeki, Takumi Inoue / Senden Kaigi 2nd: "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (Previous: 2nd), edited by Toyo Keizai Inc. / Toyo Keizai Inc. 3rd: Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Sumitomo as General Knowledge (Previous: 1st), Kiyohiro Yamakawa / Asuka Shinsha 4th: The Science of Office Politics (Previous: 10th), Takuma Kimura / Nikkei Business Publications 5th: Financial Analysis & Finance Learned Through Accounting Quizzes, Shigeru Nishiyama / Nikkei BP 6th: The World's Most Enjoyable Way to Read Financial Statements (Previous: 3rd), Random Walker of Otemachi / KADOKAWA 7th: Naval Ravikanto (Previous: 4th), E. Jorgenson / Sunmark Publishing 8th: The Secrets of Being an Outside Director, Chihiro Shibata / Chuo Keizai Sha 9th: AI Agent x Business Reform: A Practical Textbook (Previous: 9th), Fortience Consulting / Nikkei BP 10. Amendments to the Tender Offer and Large Shareholding Reporting System and Practical Responses by Hiroshi Ota / Shoji Homu 11. Impairment Test (Previous Rank: 8th) by Nobuhiro Suga / Chuo Keizai-sha 12. Practical Aspects of Transitioning to a Company with a Nominating Committee, etc. by Naoshi Katakura / Shoji Homu 13. Agent-Type AI (Previous Rank: Unranked) by Pascal Bonnet / Diamond Inc. 14. New Introduction to Modern Accounting by Kunio Ito / Nikkei BP 15. Things You Should Know Before Becoming an Entrepreneur (Previous Rank: 13th) by Shoichiro Iwata / PHP Institute

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Tips>

1st place The Scientifically Proven Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits (Last time: 3rd place) Shugo Hotta / SB Creative 2nd place THE BEST WORK (Previously: 2nd place) Taketo Hara/Sunmark Publishing 3rd place The first book on communication skills you should read when you have subordinates. Takuya Hashimoto / Achievement Publishing 4th place What do the world's top performers teach their subordinates? P.F. Grzybach / Cross Media Publishing 5th place Start with the Issue (Revised Edition) (Previous ranking: 10th) Kazuto Ataka / Eiji Publishing 6th place Things that people who are good at "explaining" always keep in mind (Previously: 9th place) Takeshi Inuzuka/Sunmark Publishing 7th place Inside the mind of a high-performing worker (Previous ranking: 6th) Taichi Kogure / Diamond, Inc. 8th place All Techniques of AI Output Masaaki Kamioka / Ascom 9th place Five ways of thinking to develop a bird's-eye view Hideki Higashi / Shinsei Publishing 10th place The Theory of Unfair Work Futa Sakai/Bungei Shunju 11th place The first book you should read when you have subordinates (Previous ranking: 13th) Takuya Hashimoto / Achievement Publishing 12th place DIE WITH ZERO: The Ultimate Rules for an Overly Rich Life (Previous ranking: 7th) B. Perkins / Diamond, Inc. 13th place Your very own AI employee (Previous ranking: 4th) Ryodai Tanaka/East Press 14th place The overwhelming results I learned from Google (Previous ranking: 15th) Kozo Nakatani/Discover 21 15th place People up to 100 million People from 100 million (Previous ranking: 11th) Kei Tanaka / Bookstore

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st place Introduction to Money Markets (Previous: 1st place) Takahiro Hattori / Nihon Hyoronsha 2nd place The Super Basics of Investing: A Visual Guide (Previous ranking: 10th) Michiko Izumi / Asahi Shimbun Publications 3rd place Japan's Economic AI Growth Strategy (Last time: 3rd place) Kazuhiko Tomiyama / Bungei Shunju 4th place An Introduction to Investing in "Highly Dividend-Growing Stocks": How to Earn 8.04 Million Yen in Annual Dividends from an Annual Income of 3 Million Yen Ricky/KADOKAWA 5th place Principles for addressing changes in the world order (Previous ranking: 8th) Ray Dalio / Nikkei Business Publications 6th place A guide to becoming a billionaire for cunning people Mykey Yoshihito Sano / KADOKAWA 7th place The Absolute Basics of Money You Can't Ask About Now: Visual Edition (Previous ranking: Unranked) Michiko Izumi / Asahi Shimbun Publications 8th place The Secret History of World Finance (Previously: 2nd place) Masato Kanda / Bungei Shunju 9th place Investment Banking A Practical Guide to Investment Bank (Previous ranking: Unranked) J. Rosenbaum, J. Pearl / Shoeisha 10th place The textbook for buying an apartment without fail. 2LDK / Pal Publishing 11th place A path to Japan's economic growth has become clear. Takuji Aida / Business Publishing Co. 12th place Stocks will always go up. (Previous ranking: 5th) Takashi Hiroki / Nikkei BP 13th place An Introduction to Japanese Government Bonds (Previous ranking: Unranked) Takahiro Hattori/Financial and Fiscal Affairs Research Group 14th place The Eve of the Great Crash Jim Rogers / President Inc. 15th place Learning the Basics of Real Estate Investment and Securitization Business Nobuyuki Tanabe / Nikkei BP

<Top 10 Literary Books>

1st place In the Megachurch (Last time: 3rd place) Ryo Asai/Nikkei Publishing 2nd place The mysterious scent is coming from the bakery 2 Usagi Tsuchiya / Takarajimasha 3rd place Acquisition of Japan Shin Ushijima / Gentosha 4th place blue sky (Previous: 1st place) Masayasu Wakabayashi / Bungei Shunju 5th place Ripe persimmon (Previously: 9th place) Masago Sato / KADOKAWA 6th place May everything become round (Previous ranking: 4th) Maha Harada / Gentosha 7th place The mysterious scent is coming from the bakery. (Previous ranking: Unranked) Usagi Tsuchiya / Takarajimasha 8th place On a beautiful moonlit night, I wanted someone to remember me. (Previous ranking: 8th) Sae Kawashiro / Sunmark Publishing 9th place The sky, an endless blue (top) (Previous ranking: Unranked) Melissa da Costa / Kodansha 10th place Sakura wants to explain it well! Shiro Takizawa / PHP Institute

Data collection Period: March 1st Sun- March 31st Tue, 2026

1. Master English in 100 Days: 10 Minutes a Day of Native English Copying by Brett Lindsay / Sunmark Publishing 2. Seiten by Masayasu Wakabayashi / Bungei Shunju 3. TOEIC L&R TEST Essential Vocabulary: Golden Phrases, Revised and Expanded Edition by TEX Kato / Asahi Shimbun Publishing 4. Google Notebook LM Thorough Utilization Techniques by Yos, Shozaburo Matsuyama, and Masatoshi Someya / Nihon Jitsugyo Publishing 5. Introduction to Money Markets by Takahiro Hattori / Nihon Hyoronsha