[5] Kawada won his first graded race, the Kokura Daishoten, with Mejiro Meyer [ja] in 2006.

[8] On September 11 of that same year, Kawada became the 31st JRA jockey to have won a total of 1,000 races in his career.

[1] In 2021, Kawada became the 9th JRA jockey ever to have won a total of 100 graded races in his career after winning the Takamatsunomiya Kinen with Danon Smash.

[10] That same year, Kawada won two GI races abroad, the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf held at Del Mar, and the Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin, together with Loves Only You; with the former win being the first time a Japanese horse ever to win that race.

[17][18][19] The final leg of the Triple Tiara, the Shuka Sho, was held on Kawada's 38th birthday.