When he was 29, Cai took his beautiful wife Wu Honghong to Japan to try to make a name for himself there. He went from being a nobody to becoming the first Chinese national to win the Japan Cultural Design Prize.
29 歲時，蔡國強帶著美麗的太太吳紅虹闖蕩日本，從一開始的籍籍無名，之後受到矚目，還成為日本文化大獎的第一位中國籍受獎人。