In the 1995 Japanese championship series, he outsmarted batting champion Ichiro Suzuki, leading his team to victory.
Tokyo Yakult Swallows player-manager Atsuya Furuta invited Kida to play in Japan, and he joined the team in the 2005 off-season.
When Japan Professional Baseball League was on the big crisis because one team collapsed and the League was going to became just one league system from two leagues system, the central League and the pacific League in 2005, he criticized the President of Japan Professional Baseball Players' Association, Atsuya Furuta because of Furuta's struggles for maintaining two leagues ' system.