These Japanese people came to China to inspect the market. That Mr. Takahashi is the leader of this inspection team, and the rest are his subordinates, who all hold Mr. Takahashi in very high esteem.
Mr. Takahashi is an extreme anti-China militarist, and personally, he is also a judo expert. His father was an officer who participated in the war of aggression against China and cruelly killed many innocent Chinese civilians. Raised in such an intensely anti-Chinese household, Takahashi holds Chinese people in utter disdain, seeing them as nothing more than ants.
Like superior, like subordinate. Under Takahashi's influence, his subordinates naturally wouldn't harbor any good feelings towards China either.
