Apparently not. They're welcoming enough, but this whole thing seems to be the Japanese Heavens' problem. [Even if the other pantheons had seemed happy enough to greet and talk to these new incarnations of gods that should have been theirs. Though he's honestly not sure what the politics there are, since he didn't discuss it much while there.]

Not sure. They didn't mention them while I was visiting mine, but it's possible there's an equivalent. [They'd need some way to fight, unless the problems they deal with aren't as resilient to conventional weapons as ayakashi.]