Japanese cities such as Kyoto and Nara have profound beauty, especially if you like ancient temples or being headbutted by cute deer. Unfortunately, over-tourism sometimes turns popular destinations into mosh pits. I worried that visitors might outnumber the thousands of vermilion-orange torii gates at Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari shrine when I visited. (They didn’t.) We explain why vilifying foreigners might hurt Japan.

Another part of the world gaining attention this week, for very different reasons, has of course been Venezuela. The capture of Nicolás Maduro, the country’s strongman, has catapulted Delcy Rodríguez into the limelight. But who is she? Read our profile of this new dictator.