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In the J.League Urawa vs. Nagasaki match (October 25, Saitama Stadium), a bizarre incident unfolded just before halftime when Nagasaki midfielder Sho Onaga opened a bag of towels at the edge of the pitch and was stung by a hornet. Onaga crouched over in pain, but the first half ended as scheduled, and he went on to play the entire match without being substituted. On 5ch, the discussion spread from debating “whose equipment was to blame” to personal horror stories about hornet and centipede stings, and even comparisons of annual death tolls from bears versus hornets.
Meiji Yasuda J1 League, Matchday 12: Urawa vs. Nagasaki (Oct. 25, Saitama Stadium)
A bizarre incident occurred during the Urawa–Nagasaki match when a player was stung by a hornet mid-game.
Just before the end of the first half, Nagasaki MF Sho Onaga was about to take a long throw-in. The instant he tried to open a bag of towels sitting at the edge of the pitch, he grabbed his hand and crouched over in pain. The first half ended right there.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
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Apparently they don't feel any responsibility at all.
That hornet came all the way from Nagasaki.
Same thing happened to me with pants I'd hung out to dry — a hornet was hiding inside and I put them on without knowing. It was brutal.
Not a hornet, but I once grabbed a towel with a centipede stuck to it without realizing.
The pain was so sharp I thought I'd grabbed a shard of glass.
Phew, good. Urawa almost got blamed for this one.
Paper wasps, though — that's happened to me twice.
Rest in peace.
You'd think summer, but it's actually late autumn.
2025 hornet-sting deaths: 16
Yeah, hornets are scarier, no contest.
Let's split the difference and go exterminate some kumanbachi instead (the name literally contains "kuma," meaning bear).
Pit vipers kill an average of 5-6 people a year.
Still, a 0.8% fatality rate isn't something to laugh off.
The quick way to check if one's male or female is to just grab it bare-handed — if it doesn't sting you, it's a male, supposedly.
Some YouTuber actually tried this. No way in hell I'm doing that myself lol
You basically never run into male hornets out in the wild anyway.
If you get bitten by a centipede, run the hottest water you can stand from the shower straight onto the bite and keep it there — it breaks down the enzymes and the pain eases up.
Oh really, I'll try that next time. Thanks.
Not the person you replied to, but I didn't know that either.
Thanks.
I heard kumanbachi are just an oversized version of honeybees — harmless to people and pets, and actually kind of cute.
Kumanbachi is just another name for the hornet — it's different from kumabachi (the carpenter bee).
Paper wasps are literally in the hornet family (Vespidae), subfamily Polistinae.
Get stung by one enough times in a row and you can genuinely develop anaphylaxis.
And once that happens, you're stuck dealing with it for the rest of your life.
Never been stung by a paper wasp before —
until I took too long tearing down a nest and got nailed.
I've actually been stung by paper wasps three separate times lol
Guess the stings were spaced out enough, or I just never developed an allergic reaction.
Oh yeah, plenty. Some of them build pretty sizable nests.
Hornets must be on a whole other level.
Honeybees die after they sting, so they won't do it unless you really provoke them.
What on earth did you do to it?
https://imgur.com/GsueBah.jpg
Didn't know that. I always figured kumanbachi was the same as kumabachi (carpenter bee).
So kumanbachi = hornet all along, huh.
Nah, don't fall for that.
This has nothing to do with toughness 🐝
Dying on the pitch mid-match would be kind of badass though.
I heard Honnami genuinely almost ended up like that once.
Yeah — got kicked in the stomach and his organs ruptured.
Managed with just two or three cans of wasp spray, but calling in professional exterminators gets pricey.
If you live in a house, start keeping an eye out once you get past June.
Wasp spray's expensive, so I tried regular bug spray instead — turned out to be brutally effective.
Background and Key Points of Discussion
Hornets are known to become most aggressive in autumn, and this incident occurred during a match in late October. Opinions on the thread split between “it must have been mixed in with Urawa’s equipment” and “the towel that caused it belonged to Nagasaki,” and based on the original article alone, it’s impossible to say for certain which side’s management was at fault. The point raised that “more people die from hornets than bears” is also a real and fairly well-known statistical trend — since bear-attack coverage tends to dominate the news, it often comes as a surprise that hornets actually claim more lives annually. As for Onaga going on to play the full match afterward, it’s presumably because first-aid treatment brought the symptoms under control, though neither the original article nor the thread specifies the medical details.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisokuho+) thread “[Soccer] Player Stung by Hornet Mid-Match! Unprecedented Incident in Urawa vs. Nagasaki… Nagasaki MF Onaga Attacked by Hornet but Plays Full Match“.
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