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I made an improved version of that "[VectorMaps] Regions and prefectures of Japan" deck on AnkiWeb, if anyone is interested.

Original deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2080271721
My version: https://my.mixtape.moe/ffmdvc.apkg

Improvements:
- Re-ordered. Instead of being shown prefectures in alphabetical order, you are shown them in geographical order. You will never be prompted to learn a prefecture if you haven't already learned one next to it. The deck starts with 北海道, then 東北地方, then all the prefectures in 東北地方 starting with 青森県 and ending with 福島県. Rinse and repeat for every other region. This was the main motivation for me to edit this deck since I found it really difficult to learn anything in the original order.

- Audio. Every card now has audio, although for the regions (**地方) sometimes I was only able to find audio of the region name itself instead of **地方 so the card for 東北地方 for instance only has 東北 as its audio. For 山梨県, Rikaisama had no audio for it at all, nor for 山梨 on its own, so I had trawl YouTube looking for a video of someone saying it, which I fortunately managed to find ( https://youtu.be/21ZUtbsoX28 ).

- Improved tags. Every prefecture is tagged according to its region. Also removed the "region" tag for 沖縄県 since as far as I can tell 沖縄 is just part of the 九州 region and not a region in itself (I also edited the 九州地方 map image to reflect this).

- Edited the 関西地方 card to also have 近畿地方 on it, since the region is known by both names (and I think 近畿 is supposed to be the more official one).

- Edited the styling of the cards a bit because it was kind of fucked up on my PC. If my new styling is fucked up for you, feel free to download the original deck and copy the styling from that (make sure you don't delete the audio bit from my setup though).

- Added furigana instead of having kanji and kana side by side as in the original deck. (requires "Japanese Support" add-on from AnkiWeb to display - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684 )

- Changed font to TakaoPGothic - https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts

- Added 54 (I think) new cards with the prefecture/region names in kanji on the front and in kana on the back to test your ability to actually read the names of the prefectures and regions rather than just identify them on a map/identify their flags as in the original deck.

I think that's all the changes. Let me know if you notice any errors or problems and I'll fix them if I can. Once this thread is dead though, I won't be doing any further maintenance or whatever on this deck so any future errors discovered will have to be corrected by whoever finds them.

If someone wants to add this to AnkiWeb or the CoR or whatever, then be my guest (if you upload it to AnkiWeb though, please include the above explanation of the changes, or an explanation in your own words if you prefer, so that people know what is different).