Hello, I am serving a three-year suspended sentence. It will expire in November 2016. Now I want to apply for a Japanese tourist visa, but I will be refused.

If you actually apply and check whether you have committed a crime when filling out the application form, then the visa will definitely be rejected. Anyone who has been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for more than one year will be refused a Japanese tourist visa. So the best way is to conceal it. Individual visas or group visas do not require proof of no criminal record. At the same time, it is not easy for the embassy to go to the public security system to check your criminal record. However, some countries require a certificate of no criminal record for visas, so there is no way.