I've been wondering why Yuzu's affiliation is not specified. They could've simply listed either Waseda University or Toronto CC Club as his affiliate but instead, they opted to leave the column blank. Could this possibly signify that there's a sponsorship announcement coming up? Or any inside info that he's currently sponsor-hunting?
It might be a simple question of bureaucracy, maybe? I don't think he can have other sponsorships, considering he's just signed with the JOC.
The blanket part is absolutely associated with sponsorships concepts, be more specific, there are two types of possibilities here, one is something where skater belongs to, high schools, university, skating clubs etc, another one is about where skaters get their major sponsorships, for instance, Kozuka belongs to Toyota Co.
Even though there are both Yuzu and Mura blanked affiliation, but the situation is quite different. For Mura,
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20130419/fig13041921390003-n1.html, it's said Mura is trying to find some 'support' as he just graduated from Chukyo University. So I would say the blank affiliation part of Mura must be related to his future sponsorships.
Hence, Yuzu's case is quite weird to me. I'll explain why.
Firstly, for Yuzu, the best example would be Yukari Nakano, same with Yuzu, Yukari was accepted by the School of Human Science, Waseda University (e-learning courses), but hardly you see Yukari Nakano(Waseda Univeristy) as times back before she retired, you always notice it was Yukari Nakano (Prince Hotel), is simply becoz she signed the sponsorship contract with Prince Hotel Co.
http://www.jiji.com/jc/d2?p=fgn00101&d=001winter
2009年12月27日
全日本選手権
女子自由で演技する中野友加里（プリンスホテル）（大阪・なみはやドーム）
中野友加里（プリンスホテル）= Yukari Nakano (Prince Hotel)
In 2009, Yukari's still a student of Waseda University
Secondly, there's a major difference when we are talking about Yuzu and Yukari's case of sponsorships, coz as Kalina stated, Yuzu's already signed with JOC's financial sponsorship program 'Symbol Athletes', Symbol Atheletes program, which involves a limited number of top-tier "Gold Partner" businesses, is aimed at luring 600 million yen in sponsorship deals over four years for rights to use the image of top athletes. (
http://www.houseofjapan.com/sport/olympics-hanyu-to-ink-symbol-athlete-deal). So zydeco88, there's no need to Yuzu hunting for a financial sponsorship coz he's already had it.
So called 'Gold Partner', you could find a full list at JOC's official website,
http://www.joc.or.jp/about/partners/, 'JOC's Gold Partner' along with 'JOC's Partner' pay huge amounts of money to get that rights of using top athletes image for the commercial basis. Therefore Yuzu's sponsorship or in other words affiliation should be from one of JOC's official partner or gold partner if he will choose one of them to be his official sponsorship. BTW, Yuzu will surly included in at least one of JOC's official partner's commercials, one of SA program athletes obligations.
Coming with a BUT, it could be considering Daisuke as an example as discussing of SA program skater's affiliations coz Daisuke renewed his contract with JOC SA program, so literally sharing the same situation with Yuzu, but it's always been Daisuke Takahashi (Kansai University) since Daisuke signed the SA contract. Also it's always been Mao Asada (Chukyo University) while Mao was still an athlete of SA program even she's been having so many sponsorships including some JOC's official partners, LOTTE Co, Airweave Co. etc. So I strongly doubt that Yuzu will choose a JOC's partner as his affiliation rather than Waseda Universtiy, specially he's just at his first year of university.
Some references, SA program athletes from 2009 to 2012,
http://www.joc.or.jp/news/detail.html?id=789
http://www.joc.or.jp/news/detail.html?id=292
http://www.joc.or.jp/news/detail.html?id=1518
http://www.joc.or.jp/news/detail.html?id=128
Mao's affiliation during 2009 to 2012 period,
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/olympic/news/2009/12/28/kiji/K20091228Z00002460.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2010/12/27/kiji/K20101227Z00001770.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2011/12/26/kiji/K20111226002316280.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2012/12/24/kiji/K20121224004839790.html
Daisuke's affiliation during 2009 to 2012 period,
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2009/04/01/kiji/K20090401Z00002230.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2010/12/26/kiji/K20101226Z00003050.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2011/02/20/kiji/K20110220000282600.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2012/12/09/kiji/K20121209004739470.html
Then back to the core question, why Yuzu's affiliation is blanked in JSF's official presents, logically I'll go with Yuzu will have an official JOC's partner as his sponsorship or also could say his affiliation, but it's still lack of kinda historical evidence as you could see Daisuke and Mao's cases I listed above.
BTW personally I'm much more interesting to see which agency Yuzu will choose for his career development anyway.
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: Thanks for the explanation, wxunxx. Doesn't an athlete usually have a say regarding their affiliation status? I looked through JSF list over the past few years and none of the fields was left blank, so I suppose they'll put up a revised version later? We'll see who he'll align himself with.
well at least Adelina did on the list then. 
