Why did they hire Chinese voice actress to voice Japanese female peasants?

Not a serious question, and I am not even a Japanese, but this has been bothering me. The English version of AOE 3 has the Japanese race, and the voice actress who voiced female peasants is obviously not a native Japapnese speaker. I do not know who she is, but I got the feeling that she is Chinese. When she said "Yo:ken wa (要件は?)", she had weird tone hikes and falls, like Chinese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHAylTqK_Zk (Japanese race game play video)

In the Japanese version of AOE 3, they used different voice resources for the Japanese race. That is, thoes who localised AOE 3 for Japanese seemed to think the Japanese voices in AOE 3 were unsuitable.

Microsoft is a big company and AOE 3 probably got ample fund. Why didn't they hire a native Japanese speaker for female peasants?

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