The   New York Times   this morning published 8 charts comparing President Donald Trump's performance with that of this predecessors.  Here are three of them: Doing very poorly. I am the only person I know in Hawaii with a roots link to Hokkaido.  My father's father, Kenjiro, came from here.  I have made several trips to Akita in northern Honshu, Otaru ( where Kenjiro was born ), Sapporo ( where the population was only 1,256 in 1872 when he was born ) and Utashinai.  One thing I learned in this effort is that Kenjiro is a name given to a first son.  I am named after him with Kenji, which stands for second son, which I am. The story of this search is provided in my 31March2009 posting of  THE SEARCH FOR KENJIRO'S GRANDMOTHERS .  In that article, I also explain the colored symbol I have used for my books. In 2009, my wife, friends and I made a roots search in Otaru and Sapporo . On another, I actually started in Akita, from where Kenjiro...