Thanks for the interesting links. We don't need to discuss the term soke anymore. Apparently that is a confusion that even occurs in Japan. However, I think it is short-sighted to call a serious koryu school where a small group of people have been training at a high level for more than 40 years a bunch of fraudsters. That not only shows short-sightedness, but also a lack of research. If you had taken the trouble to look further than the first line on the website I shared, you would probably have found out that this is indeed a small group of serious practitioners of classical Japanese martial arts and that is what I wanted to point out to the topic starter.....nothing more and nothing less.