After graduation, Bungaku Ito joined his father's company and began to study publishing.
Daini Shobo was not doing very well at the time: it focused on publishing collections of poetry, and although the reviews of some of them by literary critics were positive, they did not sell much.
[3] In 1966, Daini Shobo, run by Ito alone, published Alone Sex Life: For the Days of Solitude.
[4] In 1968, Ito published two new books by Akiyama, aimed at a homosexual audience 30,000 copies of which were sold.
[6] Barazoku was published for 33 years, and remained one of the most popular gay press publications in Japan.