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>Kappa are usually seen as kami of the water. Their actions range from comparatively minor misdemeanors, such as looking up women's kimono if they venture too near to water, to outright malevolence, such as drowning people and animals, kidnapping children, raping women and at times eating human flesh.[12] Though sometimes menacing, they may also behave amicably towards humans.[9] While younger kappa are frequently found in family groups, adult kappa live solitary lives. However, it is common for kappa to befriend other yōkai and sometimes even people.[6]

>>Kappa are usually seen as kami of the water. Their actions range from comparatively minor misdemeanors, such as looking up women's kimono if they venture too near to water, to outright malevolence, such as drowning people and animals, kidnapping children, raping women and at times eating human flesh.[12] Though sometimes menacing, they may also behave amicably towards humans.[9] While younger kappa are frequently found in family groups, adult kappa live solitary lives. However, it is common for kappa to befriend other yōkai and sometimes even people.[6]

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Some Jews from Portugal and Spain made it there in the 1500s. Converses who reconverted. I've read reports of earlier in contact in the earlyish AD. I'd imagine some got in during the isolationist period when Japan only traded with the Dutch (where many shephardi went after being kicked out of Portugal/Spain)