I think they published them because they found them interesting. Most of them are not.
I did not read anything that suggested the raid was anything other than a normal, every day, bombing run. For a city that size, I am kind of surprised that much of it was still standing.
The Japanese often refuse to face up to their role in the war and focus on our efforts to get them to quit.
I remember vividly watching Japanese war movies on Japanese TV while I was a guest of the Tachikawa USAF Hospital in 1967. In each of them, swarms of Japanese ships and aircraft sank our aircraft carriers, one after another. Damn movies made me angry - apparently, the lesson wasnt fully learned.