Every morning, students and teachers stepping into the academic building of Dhaka University’s Faculty of Business Studies are met with a familiar and frustrating sight: a lift that stands silent, its doors sealed, its buttons unresponsive. For a long time, this elevator—meant to carry people between floors and ease the movement of hundreds of students, many of whom carry heavy bags or struggle with stairs—has been completely out of order. And what should have been a simple matter of maintenance or replacement has turned into a strange and public tug-of-war between the faculty administration and the Dhaka University Central Students’…

Based on the Yomiuri Shimbun report carried by MarketWatch, the Okinawa Prefecture gubernatorial election has become another disturbing case study in how modern disinformation can upend a democratic campaign. On the surface, it is a familiar story of partisan competition: candidates trading promises about the economy, the relocation of the U.S. military’s Futenma air station, and the daily quality of life in an island prefecture that has long shouldered a disproportionate share of Japan’s security burden. But beneath this ordinary political machinery, something far more toxic is moving. Campaign workers, party officials, and even volunteers are finding themselves trapped in…