Chinen, Okinawa
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Chinen (知念村 Chinen-son) was a village located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa, Japan.
On January 1, 2006, Chinen was merged with the town of Sashiki, and the villages of Ōzato and Tamagusuku, all from Shimajiri District, to form the new city of Nanjō.
As of 2003[update], the village had an estimated population of 5,947 and a total area of 9.87 km², with a density of 602.53 persons per km².
The village of Chinen (pronounced chi-nen) was appropriated by the United States in 1948 for the purpose of building a secret CIA base, under US Army cover, known as Camp Chinen.
Upon its closure as a CIA station in July, 1972, Camp Chinen served as a US Army Special Forces training center, and as a language school for US soldiers studying Japanese and Korean, and for Japanese forces studying English. Camp Chinen closed in 1975 and was returned to the Japanese government.
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