Areas of expertise: Soviet/Russian propaganda and covert actions; Western academia and agents of influence; Soviet/Russian intelligence; historical memory of Ukrainians
Languages: Japanese, English, Russian
Sanshiro Hosaka, a PhD student at the University of Tartu, joined the ICDS in a part-time position in July 2021. His research interests include strategic narratives of non-democracies targeting academia, political technology, Soviet/Russian reflexive control and active measures, and intelligence history.
Previously, he served as a project manager in the Japan-funded intergovernmental committees in the field of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. He also worked for the Japanese diplomatic missions in Dushanbe and Kyiv. His articles have appeared in, among others, Nationalities Papers, Problems of Post-Communism, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Demokratizatsiya, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies. His latest publications are “Japanese Scholars on the ‘Ukraine Crisis’ (2014-15): Russia-Centered Ontology, Aversion to Western Mainstream and Vulnerabilities to Disinformation” in Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship (2023); “Cold War Active Measures” in Routledge Handbook of Disinformation and National Security (2023). Sanshiro Hosaka received research awards from the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies (2017) and the Japanese Association for Ukrainian Studies in 2022. His monograph Intelligence State Russia – From the Soviet KGB to Putin’s FSB regime (Tokyo: Chuokouron, 2023) won the 32nd “Yamamoto Shichihei” humanities and social science publication award.
