About that Suntory commercial :) It was really fun!! I actually did several commercials for them in addition to the "French Maid" video. I composed a song called "Sparkling New York" that was aired in various commercials. They used my recording "Marco Polo", which was popular in Japan at that time, in several commercials...I believe it was the early 80's but I don't remember the exact year. At that time I was often publicized as "Mr. New York" (hahaha)
【和訳】 サントリーのコマーシャルは本当に楽しかったよ。 実際は、あのフレンチメイドバージョン以外にも数種類のコマーシャルをやったんだ。 僕は"Sparkling New York"という曲を制作して、色々なコマーシャルに使われたんだけど、あのCMには当時日本で人気だった"Marco Polo"が使わたんだ。 確か80年代の初期だったけど、詳しい年は思い出せないな。 その頃の僕はメディアではなんと"Mr. New York"ってニックネームがつけられていたんだ(笑)