The reinforcement technique using flexible materials such as geosynthetics has been widely employed in the current engineering practice. However, the reinforcement mechanism has not revealed sufficiently, i.e. the mechanical interaction between the reinforcements and soils, the confining effect induced by reinforcements and so forth, and then it has not yet led into a proposal of rational design procedure. This paper reports in-situ loading tests carried out on the compacted soil structure reinforced by flexible beltlike materials. Elasto-plastic finite element simulations were also performed considering dilatancy characteristics of compacted soils during shearing. Throughout comparison with the field records monitored in the site and the results obtained from the conventional elastic computation, discussed are the applicability of the elasto-plastic analysis and the role of dilatancy characteristics of compacted soils in the reinforcement mechanism. For the covering abstract see ITRD E125786.