The holidays can be tough for foreign nationals in Japan. For those hired in the summer, the thrill of being in a new country is starting to fade. Open social media feeds and you¡¯ll be bombarded with photos of family and friends back home celebrating. If you¡¯re not careful, you can fall into a rut.
Luckily, TELL Japan is a just a phone call away. The nonprofit has been serving the international community here for 45 years, specifically through its volunteer phone service and professional counseling.
¡°TELL started out with the Lifeline phone service in 1973, and was then known as the Tokyo English Lifeline,¡± Lifeline Director Vickie Skorji tells The Japan Times. ¡°It grew out of a similar Japanese service called Inochi no Denwa, which had started up the year before. They were getting a lot of calls from foreigners needing help, so TELL developed from that.¡±
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