WASPS & BEES IN JAPANBEEMILL
Wasps and bees in Japan
BEEMILL is a Japanese site about wasps, hornets and bees: how to tell them apart, what your local government will do, and what to do if you are stung.
These pages are the parts that matter most if you do not read Japanese. Every fact is sourced to a public body, and anything we could not source is left out.
Emergency: dial 119 for an ambulance anywhere in Japan. It is free from any phone. What to do if you were stung →
Three pages
Stung by a bee or wasp
The first minutes, the symptoms that mean you should call 119, what to do if you were stung in the mouth, and how EpiPen and Neffy work in Japan.
Sourced to 14 public documents.
Which insect is it?
Hornet, paper wasp or honey bee — told apart by the shape of the nest. Sizes, looks, and the dangerous season.
Free removal by your city
49 of 479 municipalities remove nests at no charge, 85 subsidise the cost, 67 lend a protective suit.
With department names and phone numbers.
The rest of the site is in Japanese
If you read Japanese, or can use a translator, these have much more:
How this site is written
BEEMILL takes no listing fees and no referral fees from removal companies.
That is why it can say plainly when
a city will do the job for nothing.
Every figure comes from a named public document, linked at the bottom of each page.
Where we could not find a source, we leave the space empty and say so.
Where two public bodies say different things, we show both rather than picking one.
The English on these pages is BEEMILL's translation of Japanese sources.
If the exact wording matters to you, follow the links and read the originals.