It reads うけんそん — Uken Son. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Uken.
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宇検村 is read うけんそん (Uken Son). It is a village in Kagoshima Prefecture.
村 means "village" and is read mura / son. A village. 村 is read either mura or son, again by local convention rather than by rule.
Uken has a population of 1,640 across 103 km², making it the 1546th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 41st largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Uken are Yamato Son (13 km), Setouchi Cho (15 km), Amami Shi (24 km).