At last week's bilateral meeting with the U.S., Chinese President Xi Jinping said agriculture is a field where both countries would "expand mutually beneficial cooperation." However, it has not been so mutually beneficial to date. Shabenomics Shinzö Abe was just elected by the ruling LDP party to a second, three-year term as prime minister of Japan. He announced that his goal in the next term is to boost Japan's economic output 22 percent by 2020. That will require some inflation, which has thus far proven elusive. He also wants to increase the Japanese birth rate as well as institutionalize child and elder care. The latter would formalize into economic output data services that are already performed by family members. Most controver...