Diference between high commission and embassey?

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They are essentially the same thing:

High Commissions are only used in COMMONWEALTH NATIONS that act as embassies in those countries. This is because ambassadors are exchanged between foreign countries, but since the beginning of the Commonwealth, member countries have nominally maintained that they are not foreign to one another.

The Queen of England is also the Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc etc. All the same person, why these countries want a foreign sovereign is beyond me... but anyway.

For example: UK, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND are some countries that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations (There are 54 countries in total that are part of the commonwealth of nations).

If Canada has a Embassy in Australia, instead of calling it an Embassy, it's called a "High Commission" and instead of calling the person incharge an Ambassador, they call it that person a "High Commissioner".

In all other countries, non-commonwealth nations, they call them Embassies and Ambassadors.

For example the Canadian Embassy in the United States is called an "Embassy" because the US is not part of the COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS.

It's just different wording used, but the services provided in a high commission and embassy are virtually the same thing, just different names.

Japan is not part of the Commonwealth of Nations so there are no High Commissions or High Commissioners in Japan, just Embassies and Ambassadors.