This paper focuses on so- called “tacit farming”, farming and related activities done by locals in the military lands in Okinawa. After the WW2, the US military secured large-scale military lands to build bases in Okinawa. By the late 1950s, not a few people “tacitly” started farming in these lands. Tacit farmers lost their “tacit farm” whenever the military decides to lock them out, and they get no compensation. And, traditionally, land ownership is absolutely superior to the right to till in Okinawa and tenant rights are not secured. However, “Tacit farming” plays important roles not only in Okinawan agriculture but also in keeping connection with old “Sima”, or the ancestral space with their sanctuaries. In this paper I would like to show the significance of the “tacit farming” and the right to till, referring to interviews from my fieldworks in middle part of Okinawa.

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