Counting Period: Thu, December 4, 2025 to Wed, December 10, 2025
*The previous ranking is a comparison with November 20th Thu to November 26th Wed. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Top 15 Business Management Topics>

1. Becoming a high-growth organization: Five key points for breaking out of slow decline and achieving sustainable growth, by Joji Noritake/Nikkei BP; 2. The Science of Corporate Politics (previously ranked 4th) by Takuma Kimura/Nikkei Publishing; 3. Expanding Society with AI, by Shingo Konomoto/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 4. "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously ranked 3rd) by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc.; 5. BCG's Management Issues for 2026 (previously ranked 12th) by Boston Consulting Group/Nikkei BP ; 6. AT Kearney Industry-Specific Management Agenda 2026 by AT Kearney/Nikkei Publishing; 7. Amazing Japanese Companies with the No. 1 Global Market Share (previously ranked 9th) by Hiroyuki Tamiya/President Inc.; 8. Collective Thinking (previously ranked 5th) by Fumitake Koga/Diamond Inc.; 9. The Boss Akio Toyoda (previously unranked), Hideki Fujii/PHP Institute; 10th Hypocrite Minowa Kosuke/Gentosha; 11th Introduction to M&A Financial Due Diligence: G&S Solutions/Tax and Accounting Association; 12th Nikkei Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously unranked), edited by Nikkei Inc./Nikkei Publishing; 13th Management Theory for New Businesses (previously unranked), Yoichi Aso/Toyo Keizai Inc.; 14th Map of Financial Statement Analysis: Techniques for Seeing Business Models That Cannot Be Grasped by Just Three Financial Statements (previously unranked), Shigehisa Murakami/Soshim; 15th The Neuromarketing (previously unranked), Takanori Endo/KADOKAWA

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>

1st Place: Entrepreneurial Thinking for a Happy Life in the "100-Year Life Era" by Shinzo Koike/ Bookstore 2nd Place: Competitive Eye (previously ranked 2nd) by Susumu Fujita/Bungeishunju 3rd Place : Scientifically Proven Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits (previously ranked 3rd) by Shugo Hotta/SB Creative 4th Place : Things Only Rich People Know by Kenta Nagakura/Asahi Publishing 5th Place: Cafes at the End of the World Where You Can Find What You Want to Do (previously ranked 15th) by John Strelki/Diamond Inc. 6th Place : DIE WITH ZERO: The Ultimate Rules for Making Your Life Too Rich (previously ranked unranked) B. Perkins/Diamond Inc. 7th: People who move do well (previously ranked 6th) Nagakura Kenta/Subarusha 8th: People who read do well (previously ranked 9th) Nagakura Kenta/Subarusha 9th: The Ultimate Guide to Self-Teaching AI Sato Katsuhiko/SB Creative 10th: Millionaire's Community Capital Theory (previously ranked 4th) Shimamura Yoshihiro/President Inc. 11th: The Art of Spending Money (previously ranked 10th) Morgan Housel/Diamond Inc. 12th: The Courage to Delegate (previously ranked 14th) Igarashi Tsuyoshi/Mikasa Shobo 13th: This is How to Become a Person Who Can Act Quickly (previously ranked 13th) Yuru Azabu/PHP Institute 14th: Giant's Notebook (previously ranked 11th) Kim Ik-kan/Kanki Publishing 15th: Uchida Juku: Intensive Lectures on Practical Business Skills Development Uchida Kazunari/Chuo Keizai Publishing

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st Place: How to navigate the blue ocean of building investment, by Kentaro Hirota/Platinum Publishing; 2nd Place: THE WEALTH LADDER (previously: 5th place), by Nick Majouri/Diamond Publishing; 3rd Place: The Super Basics of Investing You're Too Embarrassed to Ask About Now, Visual Edition (previously: 3rd place), by Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publishing; 4th Place: Japan's Issues 2026-27 (previously: 4th place), by Kenichi Ohmae/President Inc.; 5th Place: Why the world's new wealthy aren't buying the "Orkan S&P 500" (previously: 2nd place), by Saki Miyawaki/KADOKAWA; 6th Place: When the dollar's hegemony ends (previously: 10th place), by Kenneth Rogoff/Nikkei BP; 7th Place : 2026 This is what Japan will become (previously ranked: 9th) Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting/Toyo Keizai Inc. 8. University of Tokyo Professor's Future Predictions (previously ranked: 7th) Yurina Takiguchi/Nikkei Publishing 9. The World History of Finance (previously ranked: not ranked) Keiichi Omura/Nikkei Publishing 10. How to Use Money to Become a Millionaire Takako Morita/SB Creative 11. Nikkei University Predictions 2026: Issues for Japan's Future (previously ranked: 13th) Nikkei Inc./Nikkei Publishing 12. Considering Prices: The Mysteries of Deflation and Inflation (previously ranked: not ranked) Tsutomu Watanabe/Nikkei Publishing 13. JUST KEEP BUYING (previously ranked: 15th) Nick Majouri/Diamond Inc. 14. Lessons from an Investor Father Who Turned 500,000 Yen into 5 Billion Yen (previously ranked: not ranked) Ta-chan/Diamond Inc. 15. Money University: Gaining True Freedom (previously ranked: 8th) Ryo @ Liber University President/Asahi Shimbun Publishing

Top 10 Literary Books

1. Naruse Runs Through the Capital by Miyajima Mina/Shinchosha; 2. Novel Thinking for Verbalization (previously: 2nd place) by Ogawa Satoshi/Kodansha 3. The Lost Face (previously: not ranked) by ; Sakurada Tomoya/Shinchosha; 4. A Strange Map (previously: 1st place) by Amana/Futabasha; 5. Naruse Walks the Path He Believes in (previously: not ranked) by Miyajima Mina/Shinchosha; 6. Akatsukiboshi by Minato Kanae/Futabasha ; 7. In the Megachurch (previously: 6th place) by Asai Ryo/Nikkei BP; 8. The Statute of Limitations of a Hundred Years (previously: not ranked) by Fushio Miki /Gentosha ; 9. Kafune (previously: not ranked) by Abe Akiko/Kodansha; 10. Kudo Rain Will Walk Fast for a While More/Shinchosha

Counting Period: November 1st Sat to November 30th Sun 2025

1st place: A strange map, Amaana (Amaana) / Futabasha 2nd place: Scientifically proven amazing habits encyclopedia by Shugo Hotta / SB Creative 3rd place : Just look and you'll understand!! English pictogram encyclopedia mark (Koji Muraki) / President Inc. 4th place: Billionaire's community capital theory by Yoshihiro Shimamura / President Inc. 5th place: Novel thinking for verbalization by Satoshi Ogawa / Kodansha