I had a criminal record in China 10 years ago. Can I get a visa for traveling to Japan with a group now?

It’s hard to say, it depends on your criminal record. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan stipulates that as long as a person is sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of more than one year, regardless of whether he is suspended, he will not be able to apply for various types of Japanese visas for life. Those who have served a sentence of less than one year can only apply after a certain period of time. Therefore, if you have been sentenced to more than one year in prison, the best way is to conceal your criminal record, but it is hard to say whether you will be able to get a visa in the end. If the group visa application is not strictly checked, there is still a high chance that even the Japanese embassy cannot just go to the public security department to check criminal records, and group visa does not require a criminal record.