What are the simularities and differences in exhibiting world war two in japan and the united states?

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Japanese government (either MOFA or MOD) hesitates to reveal the documents on Japanese military HQ before and during the war.
Hundreds of books were written after the war to discuss how the decision of the war was made and continued even after Japan's defeat was inevitable by the end of 1942. However, the nation of Japan have never been allowed to see the actual documents of our military HQ back then. We know that 3 million Japanese (2 million soldiers and 1 million civilians) were killed during the war and that if our military HQ had decided to terminate the war much earlier without deceiving the nation, a large portion of our casualties could have been prevented.

On the other hand, the US hesitates to exhibit documents related to A-bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No matter how they try to justify that atrocity in retrospect, their feeling of guilt remains. We (Japanese) do not have any objection to the killing game between military personnel. War is war. But, killing 200,000 innocent civilians (120,000 in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki) on the spot (many more died afterwords) cannot be justified no matter what. When Enola Gay (the aircraft dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima) was exhibited at Smithsonian Museum, a fierce controversy took place all over the US, which was extensively reported in Japan over and over again. We were very curious how US public (not military veterans) would react to that controversy.