By and large, The Japanese people, after decades of indoctrination, are socialists trapped in the democratic governmental framework set up by the USA after the war. When the country began to thrive, economically, they had time for selective introspection but they had limited material to choose from, and limited desire to see the whole truth. Before the bubble burst in the 80s, they even regained much of their racial and national arrogance.
An interesting trichotomy emerged. The older folks who remembered the war and its aftermath, were mostly traditionalists in lifestyle but ambivalent (warm) towards the West and the USA, the middle-agers who, while modernists in lifestyle, harbored guilt and resentment that manifested as anger towards all things western and the USA in particular, and the young folk who wanted no part of the traditional Japanese lifestyles and embraced a love of all things foreign.
In truth, no one in these 3 groups ever received a proper government-supplied History education about the war and Japan’s role.
Hard to point any fingers when you take a look at the ignorance of the American kids when it comes to an understanding of our basic history.
I agree with everything you said.
However, Japan does not censor literature, neither does she censor the internet ( unlike China ).
Any honest Japanese bent on knowing the truth can find out about it.