I had expected stronger resistance from the enemy but if anything there are less of them as we advance to the centre... Don't you think that's strange?
東京は今や世界経済の中枢だ。
Tokyo is now a center of the world economy.
国家の文化とアイデンティティという枢要な問題から切り離された時点で、比較文化はその方向性を失う。
Once divorced from key questions of national culture and identity, comparative literature loses its way.