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 joined the ICDS in July 2021. His current research interests include strategic narrative, disinformation, political technology, Soviet/Russian active measures, intelligence history, epistemic community, Sino-Russian relations, and Baltic security. Previously, he served as a project management officer in the Japan-funded intergovernmental committees in the field of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. He also worked at Japanese diplomatic missions in Dushanbe and Kyiv. His articles have been published in journals such as Nationalities Papers, Problems of Post-Communism, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Demokratizatsiya, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Europe-Asia Studies and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Sanshiro received research awards from the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies in 2017 and the Japanese Association for Ukrainian Studies in 2022. His monograph on Russian intelligence history and tradecraft won the 32nd “Yamamoto Shichihei” humanities and social science publication award. He also provides commentary for various European and Japanese media outlets.