Kagawa Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Kagawa Inochi no Denwa is a telephone counseling service that opened in October 1984, the 18th center to open in Japan. Since 1996 it has been open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and volunteer counselors who have completed the prescribed training and been certified take calls from people who can talk without giving their name.

• Suicide Prevention Inochi no Denwa (toll-free)

  0120-783-556

  Available from 8:00 on the 10th of every month to 8:00 the next morning. Calls are free.

• Fax counseling

  087-861-4343

  Counseling by fax is also available (started in September 1992).

• Since October 1996 it has operated as the "Nemuranu Dial" (the line that never sleeps), taking calls 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
• You do not have to give your name, and what you discuss is kept confidential. Counseling is free, but no financial assistance is provided.
• Calls are answered by volunteer counselors certified after a one-year training course and one year of practical training (99 counselors as of April 1, 2023).
• Calls are recorded to improve the quality of counseling; recordings are managed appropriately and are not provided or disclosed to third parties.
• The service is not affiliated with any particular ideology, religion or political party.

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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