Prof. Masashi Hayakawa, Representative Director of QuakeInsight Tokyo and Professor Emeritus at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), delivered a special lecture at the 2025 International Symposium on Earth and Space Environment Monitoring and its Application to Disaster Risk Reduction, held at UEC on November 11, 2025. 

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The lecture, titled Study of Electromagnetic Noise for 50 Years, was presented in recognition of his receipt of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, a Japanese national decoration, in 2025.

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Prof. Hayakawa reviewed five decades of research on electromagnetic noise and discussed its application to earthquake prediction.