Counting Period: Thu, December 18, 2025 to Wed, December 24, 2025
*The previous ranking is a comparison with December 4th Thu to December 10th Wed. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Top 15 Business Management Topics>

1. The Option of Revitalization: M&A by Hiroki Kobayashi/Nikkei BP; 2. Collective Thinking (8th place, last time) by Fumitake Koga/Diamond Inc.; 3. The Science of Internal Politics (2nd place, last time) by Takuma Kimura/Nikkei Publishing; 4. "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (4th place, last time) edited by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc.; 5. IT Navigator 2026 Edition by Nomura Research Institute/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 6. Expanding Society with AI (3rd place, last time) by Shingo Konomoto/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 7. AT Kearney Industry-Specific Management Agenda 2026 (6th place, last time) by AT Kearney/Nikkei Publishing; 8. Bill Gates Autobiography 1: Bill Gates/Hayakawa Publishing; 9. Amazing Japanese Companies with the No. 1 Global Market Share (7th place, last time) by Hiroyuki Tamiya/President Inc.; 10. BCG's Reading on Management Issues 2026 (Previous: 5th place) Boston Consulting Group/Nikkei BP 11th place : Chosen by AI, beloved by fans. Takayuki Sato/Nikkei BP 12th place: Management theory for new businesses (Previous: 13th place) Yoichi Aso/Toyo Keizai Inc. 13th place: Complete techniques for using AI in intellectual production Itaru Tomita/Kanki Publishing 14th place : Answers to all the questions that CEOs have Shuji Tanaka/KADOKAWA 15th place: Easy-to-understand logistics with illustrations Masashi Onozuka/Shobunsha

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>

1st place competitive eye (Previously: 2nd place) Susumu Fujita/Bungei Shunju 2nd place Good questions that will get you using your brain Satoshi Takamatsu/Soshim 3rd place The scientifically proven encyclopedia of amazing habits (Last time: 3rd place) Shugo Hotta/SB Creative 4th place DIE WITH ZERO The ultimate rule for making life too rich (Previously: 6th place) B. Perkins/Diamond Inc. 5th place What only the rich know (Previously: 4th place) Kenta Nagakura/Asahi Publishing 6th place This is how you become someone who can act quickly. (Previously: 13th place) Yuru Azabu/PHP Institute 7th place People who read books do well (Previously: 8th place) Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha 8th place A heartwarming humanities textbook for 365 people, one story per day Hideaki Fujio/Chichi Publishing 9th place People who move do well (Last time: 7th place) Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha 10th place The Art of Spending Money (Previously: 11th place) Morgan Housel/Diamond Inc. 11th place How to work as a foreign consultant Atsuyuki Fujii/Toyo Keizai Inc. 12th place The true rest your brain desires: The sleepless brain (Last time: Not ranked) Takeshi Higashijima/Sunmark Publishing 13th place Strategic Consulting Techniques Tomoya Hasebe/Nikkei Publishing 14th place The Ultimate Guide to Self-Teaching AI (Previously: 9th place) Katsuhiko Sato/SB Creative 15th place BCG Management Problem Solving "20 Thinking Tools" Jungo Inoue/Nikkei Publishing

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st place The stock won't fall anymore Kei Asakura/Business Company 2nd place The Super Basics of Investing: A Visual Guide (Last time: 3rd place) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 3rd place Why the world's nouveau riche aren't buying the Orkan S&P 500 (Previously: 5th place) Saki Miyawaki/KADOKAWA 4th place The Eve of the Great Reverse Atsuto Sawagami/Asuka Publishing 5th place University of Tokyo professor's far-future predictions (Previously: 8th place) Yurina Takiguchi/Nikkei Publishing 6th place Empirical Business Economics Yasuaki Uetake/Nippon Hyoronsha 7th place When the dollar's hegemony ends (Previously: 6th place) Kenneth Rogoff/Nikkei BP 8th place The Super Basics of Money That You're Too Embarrassed to Ask About Now: Visual Edition (Last time: Not ranked) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 9th place THE WEALTH LADDER (Previously: 2nd place) Nick Majouri/Diamond Inc. 10th place Thinking about prices: The mystery of deflation and inflation (Previously: 12th place) Tsutomu Watanabe/Nikkei Publishing 11th place The World History of Finance (Previously: 9th place) Keiichi Omura/Nikkei Publishing 12th place Money University: Gaining True Freedom (Previously: 15th place) Both @ Liber University President / Asahi Shimbun Publications 13th place Preserving a strong Japan (Last time: Not ranked) Masato Kanda/Nikkei Publishing 14th place Stock investment that will save you 100 million yen in 5 years (Last time: Not ranked) kenmo/Nikkei Publishing 15th place Japan Issues 2026-27 Kenichi Ohmae/President Inc.

Top 10 Literary Books

1st place Naruse runs through the capital (Previously: 1st place) Mina Miyajima/Shinchosha 2nd place Novel thinking for verbalization (Previously: 2nd place) Satoshi Ogawa/Kodansha 3rd place LOST LETTER Shiori Kubo/Gentosha 4th place How to burn life (Last time: Not ranked) Daihi Suzuki/Kodansha 5th place Strange Map (Previously: 4th place) Amaana / Futabasha 6th place Lost Face (Last time: 3rd place) Tomoya Sakurada/Shinchosha 7th place Naruse follows the path he believes in (Previously: 5th place) Mina Miyajima/Shinchosha 8th place monkey Natsuhiko Kyogoku/KADOKAWA 9th place Secret of Secrets Vol. 1 Dan Brown/KADOKAWA 10th place Rocking horses on a sunny day Maha Harada/Shinchosha

Counting Period: Monday Mon 2025 to Wed December 31, 2025

1st place: Naruse Runs Through the Capital, by Miyajima Mina, published by Shinchosha; 2nd place: Quantum Computers as Culture, by Fujii Keisuke, published by Diamond Inc.; 3rd place: Just Look and Understand! English Pictogram Encyclopedia Mark (by Muraki Koji, published by President Inc.) ; 4th place : How "Chance" Shapes You, by Brian Klaas, published by Toyo Keizai Inc.; 5th place: Eyes on the Game, by Fujita Susumu, published by Bungeishunju