Counting Period: Thu, January 29, 2026 to Wed, February 4, 2026
*The previous ranking is a comparison with January 15th Thu to January 21st, 2026. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Top 15 Business Management Topics>

1st Place: Japan's Cybersecurity Standards Trusted by Business Partners, by Tetsuya Fujita/Diamond Inc. 2nd Place: Introduction to Accounting and AI, by Shun Matsuoka/Chuo Keizai Inc. 3rd Place: Organizational Incongruity (5th place, last time) by Mai Teshigawara/Diamond Inc. 4th Place : "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (3rd place, last time) edited by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc. 5th Place: The Science of Internal Politics (2nd place, last time) by Takuma Kimura/Nikkei Inc. 6th Place: Legal and Tax Affairs for MBOs, by Kazuki Tahara/Chuo Keizai Inc. 7th Place: Strategies That Don't Start from Scratch , by Ryohei Nomoto/Nikkei Inc. 8th Place : The Definitive Edition: Reviving Closed Companies (13th place, last time) by Tadashi Saegusa/KADOKAWA 9th Place: Google's Amazing Hires, by Takako Ogawa/Toyo Keizai Inc. 10th Place: Nikkei Industry Map 2026 Edition (12th place, last time) by Nikkei Inc. Edited by Nikkei Publishing, No. 11: GTM Strategy Textbook (previously ranked 15th) by Tatsuro Marui/Shoeisha, No. 12: Becoming a Sony Accountant (previously ranked 6th) by Kiyotaka Ushio/Chuokeizaisha, No. 13: AFTER M&A by Hitoshi Iwashita/Chuokeizaisha, No. 14: Easy-to-understand Logistics Illustrated Guide (previously ranked 7th) by Masashi Onozuka/Shobunsha, No. 15: Psychology for Human Resources by Akira Sato/Nihon Jitsugyo Publishing

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>

1st place Good questions that will get you using your brain (Previously: 1st place) Satoshi Takamatsu/Soshim 2nd place The scientifically proven encyclopedia of amazing habits (Previously: 2nd place) Shugo Hotta/SB Creative 3rd place What people who are good at explaining always keep in mind (Last time: 7th place) Takeshi Inuzuka/Sunmark Publishing 4th place The top priorities of managers who consistently achieve outstanding results, learned from Google Kozo Nakatani/Discover 21 5th place DIE WITH ZERO The ultimate rule for making life too rich (Previously: 5th place) B. Perkins/Diamond Inc. 6th place competitive eye (Previously: 10th place) Susumu Fujita/Bungei Shunju 7th place The Giver: The formula for moving people (Previously: 13th place) Madoka Sawa/Bungeishunju 8th place Why does "I couldn't finish my work today" happen? (Previously: 11th place) Masahiro Hagiwara/Diamond Inc. 9th place What only the rich know (Last time: 3rd place) Kenta Nagakura/Asahi Publishing 10th place Your very own AI employee Ryodai Tanaka/East Press 11th place How to work as a foreign consultant (Previously: 6th place) Atsuyuki Fujii/Toyo Keizai Inc. 12th place It all starts with words Non-standard/Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha 13th place How to use the remaining time (Previously: 12th place) Masaru Sato/Impress 14th place A cafe at the end of the world where you can find what you want to do (Previously: 14th place) John Strelke/Diamond Inc. 15th place Habits of living wisely (Previously: 9th place) Kota Mikami/Subarusha

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st place Japan's Economic AI Growth Strategy Kazuhiko Toyama/Bungeishunju 2nd place The Eve of the Great Crash Jim Rogers/President Inc. 3rd place He who holds onto the gold will win, and the silver will be multiplied tenfold. Takahiko Soejima/Shodensha 4th place The Super Basics of Investing: A Visual Guide (Previously: 1st place) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 5th place The essence of life and money that a mother working in a foreign financial institution wants to teach her child Makiko Kawamura/Discover 21 6th place The world runs on debt Richard Veig/Toyo Keizai Inc. 7th place A comprehensive introduction to risk management through dialogue Tokyo Risk Manager/Financial and Fiscal Affairs Research Institute 8th place Thinking about prices: The mystery of deflation and inflation (Previously: 8th place) Tsutomu Watanabe/Nikkei Publishing 9th place When the dollar's hegemony ends Kenneth Rogoff/Nikkei BP 10th place The Super Basics of Money That You're Too Embarrassed to Ask About Now: Visual Edition (Previously: 2nd place) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 11th place Stock investment that will save you 100 million yen in 5 years (Previously: 10th place) kenmo/Nikkei Publishing 12th place Learn the basics of real estate investment and securitization business Nobuyuki Tanabe/Nikkei BP 13th place Taizo Sugimura's recommended stock "solid" investment technique Taizo Sugimura/Bungeishunju 14th place Why the world's nouveau riche aren't buying the Orkan S&P 500 (Previously: 5th place) Saki Miyawaki/KADOKAWA 15th place Money University: Gaining True Freedom (Previously: 4th place) Both @ Liber University President / Asahi Shimbun Publications

Top 10 Literary Books

1st place I'm alive Naoki Matayoshi/Bungeishunju 2nd place The Divine Butterfly Dances to the End Naoko Uehashi/Kodansha 3rd place On the way back from the cafe (Previously: 1st place) Akira Shimazu/Tokyo Sogensha 4th place Novel thinking for verbalization (Last time: 3rd place) Satoshi Ogawa/Kodansha 5th place In the Megachurch (Last time: 7th place) Ryo Asai/Nikkei Publishing 6th place Leibniz's Seven Glorious Days Michael Kempe/Shinchosha 7th place Naruse runs through the capital (Previously: 2nd place) Mina Miyajima/Shinchosha 8th place House of Time (Previously: 5th place) Makoto Toriyama/Kodansha 9th place diversion (Previously: 4th place) Konno Bin/Shinchosha 10th place Greta Nimp Risa Wataya/Shogakukan

Counting Period: January 1st Thu to January 31st Sat, 2026

1st place: Good Questions to Use Your Brain, by Takamatsu Satoshi/Soshim; 2nd place: TOEIC L&R TEST: Express Vocabulary Showing Up: Golden Phrases, Revised and Expanded Edition, by TEX Kato/Asahi Shimbun Publications; 3rd place: Scientifically Proven Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits, by Hotta Shugo/SB Creative; 4th place: Naruse Runs Through the Capital, by Miyajima Mina/Shinchosha; 5th place : How "Chance" Shapes You, by Brian Klaas/Toyo Keizai Inc.