False Equality

In 1982 the Japanese Government took the decision to enable foreign men to live and work in Japan through marriage. The law came into effect on 1 January 1985.
The European Commission of Human Rights determined on 11 May 1982 that the cases of three women (two foreign, one Commonwealth), whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK, to be Admissible. The European Court of Human Rights decided in favour of the three women in May 1985.
It's clear that the Council of Europe's activities concerning this issue mirrored those of Japan.
This gives the impression of equality. It negates my complaint of 10 June 1977 that I (and other Englishmen) often cannot live in other countries through marriage.
But this "equality" is false.
This is because people in international marriages (outside the EU) are in a privileged position compared with those who aren't, because they have the choice of two countries in which to live.
The Council of Europe should oppose privilege, rather than support it.
The Council of Europe was certainly not established to enable migration to member states by people from non-member states.
Putting the UK and Japan on an apparently equal footing has the effect of enabling Afghans to live in the UK and Zimbabweans to live in Japan. Naturally these men want children both in order to increase their hold on their new country and to increase their community's presence (and power).
Whoever wants this cannot like the Japanese. Not only is the famous Japanese homogenuity being destroyed but the chronic imbalance of the sexes of young people is being deliberately exacerbated.
The reason I am in the UK is because of this issue. My Japanese wife lost her "right" to permanent residence in the UK in 1999 after we had been living 8 years in Japan. She had no home in Japan. So if I had dropped dead there she would have had nowhere to live.
Real equality, should it exist, lies not in enabling Englishmen, Scotsmen, etc. to live elsewhere through marriage, but in preventing foreign men from occupying the UK, and Japan. This does not, of course, mean that foreign married men would not be able to live in the UK; just that they would have to have a time-limited visa and some other reason for being here.