Ashikaga Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Ashikaga Inochi no Denwa is a telephone counseling service that opened in June 1987 and has operated since 2016 as a branch of the social welfare corporation Tochigi Inochi no Denwa. Calls are taken from 15:00 to 21:00. You are not asked for your name, and your conversation is confidential.

• Online counseling

  Online counseling offered by the operating organization, Tochigi Inochi no Denwa, accessed through the Federation of Inochi no Denwa page (it is not specific to the Ashikaga center).

• Sharing group for people bereaved by suicide, "Komorebi"

  A gathering for people who have lost a loved one to suicide, run by the operating organization, Tochigi Inochi no Denwa. As a rule it meets on the afternoon of the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month at Tochigi Fukushi Plaza (participation fee 200 yen per session).

• Ashikaga Inochi no Denwa has been run as a branch of the social welfare corporation Tochigi Inochi no Denwa since May 2016.
• You are not asked for your name, and everything you talk about is kept confidential.
• Calls are answered by volunteer counselors who have completed the required training and been certified.
• Counseling is free, and your religion and way of thinking are respected.
• The operating organization states that it cannot respond to calls made for sexual purposes, calls that abuse counselors, or prank calls.

Your municipality (city, ward, town or village) also has counters for welfare, health and child-rearing concerns. Call the main number, explain what you want to discuss, and ask for the counter in charge.

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