I can’t remember what the decks are like before season 2, but they definitely include both recalling and recognizing in later seasons.

You can try checking the deck properties to make sure you haven’t disabled any card groups by accident.

I don’t remember any decks having only Japanese -> English, have you checked if there’s any more you can enable in the deck settings?

Weird I don’t remember that, I guess it has changed a fair bit since I did that stuff though.

Thanks for your answer Hattori, I created cards for the vocabulary. I knew, I’ll have a hard time to recall the Japanese words…

Well, the sentences I usually “decode” as suggested in the Birkenbihl method. That means, I have two sets of sentences in my (other) sentence decks. One set contains the nice Japanese sentence in Kana and if available in Kanji and the nice sentence in my language. The second set contains the “butchered” Japanese sentence as well as the word to word translation into my language (in the Japanese sentence structure). If available I add sound. That was a good practice to learn how to cut soundfiles quickly into pieces and number them.

At the moment, the decks show both sentences the nice Japanese ones and the butchered one or the nice in my language as well as the word for word translated Japanese word order. When I’m getting better, I might just turn off the word for word my language part or just show Kanji without Kana whatever helps me to improve.
I don’t worry (yet) about sticking too much to one way of word order. My language is quite flexible about this aspect too ;-)

Doing this, is a good practice for me to write Japanese and hopefully learn those words. In a context, I kind of need less effort to remember words.
Actually, I have two decks containing sentences. One for the conversations of my physical Japanese book and one with てんきよほう sentences from coscom.co.jp. Whole sentences with sound give me too some reading practice :-)

I’m also kind of experimenting, which way does suit me to remeber easyer or harder all those new things.
My way of learning definitely will change as I progress studying Japanese ;-)

I like bloody messes…. ;-)

No, I butcher them and thranslate them to get an idea how Japanese sentences are put together. Well I found out that I better also get a grammar book in my language to have words for certain grammatical happenings.

In my Japanese book there are two more lessons to go which are still written mostly in Romanji. The Kana part is at the end of the book along with the translation (the nice sentenes). Kana is written the Japanese way, thus sometimes it is hard for me to recognize the words in this snake like writing.
Since I butcher those sentences, I also recognized that in conversations they just use some expressions which are not properly explained.
To have my language written the Japanese way helps me to put together the sentences into Japanese at the moment.

Well, the weather report at http://www.coscom.co.jp/newsweather/weather/index-j.html is already kind of pre-butchered. I just add the word by word translation. Since the words in weather reports tend to repeat once in a while, I decided to do it. The text is nicely short, contains Kana as well as Kanji, vocabulary in both writing systems is available as well as sound. Thus doing this doesn’t consume too much time.
At the moment I’m studying Japanese -> English. In a separate deck I add the vocabulary which I study JP-EN and EN-JP.
Here my goal is to get more fluent reading out loud. After a couple of weeks, I might even be able to understand the idea before translating word by word.
I’ll see.