Keigo Higashino’s Posthumous ‘Eien no Kioku’ Tops Billboard Japan Book Hot 100 With Record Points for a Novel
Keigo Higashino’s Eien no Kioku (which roughly translates to “eternal memory”) hits No.
1 on the Billboard Japan Book Hot 100, on the chart released Aug.
13.
The latest novel from Higashino — published posthumously following his death on July 23 at age 68 — leads brick-and-mortar and social media to accumulate 16,394 points this week, the highest single-week point total ever recorded for a novel on the chart.
The previous record was held by Uketsu’s Hen na Chizu ( Strange Maps , 11,566 points), which topped the chart in its very first week on the list released Nov.
6, 2025.
Eiichiro Oda’s ONE PIECE Vol.
115 climbs 17-2 following the release of its digital edition, topping the e-books metric.
The volume also places No.
13 in brick-and-mortar, a sign of its enduring popularity more than a month after its initial release.
Yuto Suzuki’s SAKAMOTO DAYS Vol.
28 enters at No.
3, placing No.
2 in both brick-and-mortar and e-books.
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