Dan (rank) is by far the most recognizable symbol to the general public. The highest dan ranks are sometimes reserved for the founder or leaders of a style and only high-ranking students can be promoted to them. For example, only five living people hold a tenth dan in judo and only about thirty-five worldwide have been promoted to the rank since its inception; of those 10th dan promotions only fifteen were conferred by the Kodokan, all of them to Japanese judoka. This has led to upper level ranks becoming extinct in some arts. In other styles, the dan ranks are not the
Norwegian Judo Federation Norwegian Judo Federation The Norwegian Judo Federation ( - "NJF") is the national federation of judo in Norway. The chairman is Vibeke Thiblin (since 2009) and the deputy chairman is Harald Monsen. The Norwegian Judo Federation was founded in 1967. The organisation's headquarters are in Oslo. It is an affiliate of the International Judo Federation. In 2002 the Norwegian Judo Federation started training Afghan judokas under an exchange program with the Afghan Judo Federation established that year with the federation slogan "Judo for Peace". What began as a modest effort took on a big scale as increasingly more Afghan children