Counting Period: Thu, January 1, 2026 to Wed, January 7, 2026
*The previous ranking is a comparison with the period from December 18th Thu to December 24th Wed, 2025. (Items without a description are new releases.)

<Top 15 Business Management Topics>

1st: A book that answers all the questions that CEOs have (previously ranked 14th) by Shuji Tanaka/KADOKAWA 2nd: "Company Quarterly Report" Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously ranked 4th) by Toyo Keizai Inc./Toyo Keizai Inc. 3rd: Japan's Differentiation Strategy by Nomura Research Institute/Toyo Keizai Inc. 4th: The Science of Corporate Politics (previously ranked 3rd) by Takuma Kimura/Nikkei Publishing 5th: Amazing Japanese Companies with the No. 1 Global Market Share (previously ranked 9th) by Hiroyuki Tamiya/President Inc. 6th : SHIFT Anatomy by Tatsunosuke Iiyama/Nikkei BP 7th: The Definitive Edition: Reviving Stalled Companies by Tadashi Saegusa/KADOKAWA 8th: AT Kearney Industry-Specific Management Agenda 2026 (previously ranked 7th) by AT Kearney/Nikkei Publishing 9th: BCG's Management Issues for 2026 (previously ranked 10th) by Boston Consulting Group/Nikkei BP 10th: Nikkei Industry Map 2026 Edition (previously unranked) Edited by Nikkei Inc./Nikkei Publishing 11th place IT Navigator 2026 Edition (previously 5th place) Nomura Research Institute/Toyo Keizai Inc. 12th place Generative AI broke my heart: Tsuruaki Yukawa/Geijutsu Shimbunsha 13th place Easy-to-understand logistics with illustrations (previously 15th place) Masashi Onozuka/Shobunsha 14th place DX in the age of AI agents: Yoshinobu Abe/Nikkei BP 15th place Becoming an accountant at Sony: Kiyotaka Ushio/Chuo Keizai

<Top 15 Business (Self-Improvement) Items>

1st Place: New Elite Ronpurukawa Masaru/PHP Institute 2nd Place: Good Questions to Use Your Brain (Previous: 2nd Place) Takamatsu Satoshi/Soshim 3rd Place : DIE WITH ZERO: The Ultimate Rules for Making Your Life Too Rich (Previous: 4th Place) B. Perkins/Diamond Inc.4th place: The Encyclopedia of Amazing Habits, Scientifically Proven (3rd place last time) Shugo Hotta/SB Creative5th place: A Competitive Eye (1st place last time) Susumu Fujita/Bungeishunju6th place : People Who Move Succeed (9th place last time) Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha7th place: People Who Read Succeed (7th place last time) Kenta Nagakura/Subarusha8th place : Things Only Rich People Know (5th place last time) Kenta Nagakura/Asahi Publishing9th place: How Foreign Consultants Work (11th place last time) Atsuyuki Fujii/Toyo Keizai Inc.10th place : The Cafe at the End of the World Where You Can Find What You Want to DoJohn Strelki/Diamond Inc.11th place : One Story a Day: A Textbook on Human Studies from 365 People That Will Warm Your Heart When You Read It (8th place last time) Hideaki Fujio/Chichi Publishing12th place : Do Something Paulo Savallé/NewsPicks13th place: How to Use the Time You Have Left Sato Masaru/Impress14th place : This is how you can become someone who can act quickly. (Previously: 6th place) Yuru Azabu / PHP Institute 15th place Start with the Issue Revised Edition (Previously: Not ranked) Kazuto Ataka / Eiji Publishing

<Economics/Finance Top 15>

1st place The Super Basics of Investing: A Visual Guide (Previously: 2nd place) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 2nd place The stock won't fall anymore (Previously: 1st place) Kei Asakura/Business Company 3rd place The Super Basics of Money That You're Too Embarrassed to Ask About Now: Visual Edition (Previously: 8th place) Michiko Izumi/Asahi Shimbun Publications 4th place Why the world's nouveau riche aren't buying the Orkan S&P 500 (Last time: 3rd place) Saki Miyawaki/KADOKAWA 5th place Thinking about prices: The mystery of deflation and inflation (Previously: 10th place) Tsutomu Watanabe/Nikkei Publishing 6th place University of Tokyo professor's far-future predictions (Previously: 5th place) Yurina Takiguchi/Nikkei Publishing 7th place Stock investment that will save you 100 million yen in 5 years (Previously: 14th place) kenmo/Nikkei Publishing 8th place The Eve of the Great Reverse (Previously: 4th place) Atsuto Sawagami/Asuka Publishing 9th place What Japan will be like in 2026 Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting/Toyo Keizai Inc. 10th place Money University: Gaining True Freedom (Previously: 12th place) Both @ Liber University President / Asahi Shimbun Publications 11th place Investor's Handbook for Financial Market Forecasting, 8th Edition (Last time: Not ranked) Sumitomo Bank Market Business/NHK Publishing 12th place The Complete Guide to US Stocks 2026 Shinyusha/Shinyusha 13th place THE WEALTH LADDER (Previously: 9th place) Nick Majouri/Diamond Inc. 14th place When the dollar's hegemony ends Kenneth Rogoff/Nikkei BP 15th place JUST KEEP BUYING (Last time: Not ranked) Nick Majouri/Diamond 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 How to burn life (Previously: 4th place) Daihi Suzuki/Kodansha 4th place In the Megachurch (Last time: Not ranked) Ryo Asai/Nikkei Publishing 5th place The Name of the Rose Complete Edition Vol. 1 Umberto Eco/Tokyo Sogensha 6th place How an average person can make a living as a novelist Kikuko Tsumura/Natsuhasha 7th place Lost Face (Previously: 6th place) Tomoya Sakurada/Shinchosha 8th place 100-year statute of limitations (Last time: Not ranked) Miki Fushio/Gentosha 9th place Naruse follows the path he believes in (Last time: 7th place) Mina Miyajima/Shinchosha 10th place Box of Tears (Last time: Not ranked) Han Kang/Hyoronsha

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