Yamagata Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Yamagata Inochi no Denwa is a telephone counseling service that opened on October 1, 1994, with suicide prevention as its main purpose. You can talk free of charge without giving your name, and calls are answered by volunteer counselors who have completed training and been certified. Calls are taken from 13:00 to 22:00.

• Toll-free number (daily and on the 10th of every month)

  0120-783-556

  Daily 16:00–21:00. On the 10th of every month, 24 hours from 8:00 to 8:00 the next day. Also available during Suicide Prevention Week (September 10 at 8:00 to September 17 at 8:00)

• Navi Dial

  0570-783-556

  10:00–22:00. Goes through the Navi Dial reception center and connects you to a center that can take your call

• Online counseling (Federation of Inochi no Denwa)

  You can write in by email; a reply arrives in about one week

• A telephone counseling service whose main purpose is suicide prevention. Counseling is free. You do not need to give your name.
• Your conversation is confidential, and your ideas, beliefs and religion are respected.
• Calls are answered by private volunteer counselors who have completed training and been certified.
• Calls with a withheld caller ID cannot be accepted, so call with your number shown (one way is to add 186 before the number).
• Calls are recorded to improve counseling, but callers' privacy is strictly protected.

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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