Kobe Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Kobe Inochi no Denwa began telephone counseling in June 1981, resumed after losing its base in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and became a social welfare corporation in 2002. You can talk without giving your name, and your conversation is confidential. About 150 counselors who have completed training answer more than 14,000 calls a year.

• Suicide Prevention Inochi no Denwa (toll-free, nationwide)

  0120-783-556

  Calls are free. Daily 16:00–21:00; on the 10th of every month, 24 hours from 8:00 to 8:00 on the 11th.

• You do not have to give your name, and your conversation is confidential.
• Calls are answered by counselors who have completed training and been certified.
• About 150 counselors currently answer more than 14,000 calls a year.
• Calls for sexual purposes, calls that abuse counselors, and prank or harassing calls are not accepted.
• The center is a member of the Federation of Inochi no Denwa (general incorporated association) and uses the name "Inochi no Denwa" with its permission.

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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