WA grandmother Donna Nelson — who was fighting a drug smuggling conviction in Japan — has had her appeal dismissed.

The 59-year-old Perth woman was last year given a six-year-sentence for bringing 2kg of meth into the country in January 2023.

Ms Nelson has always maintained she was tricked by a romance scam and had no idea there were drugs in her suitcase.

However, three appeal judges in the Tokyo High Court on Thursday ruled she will need to serve the remainder of her sentence in a Japanese prison.

Nelson was convicted at trial in Japan last December after her shock arrest at Narita International Airport in January 2023 when customs officials found the drugs hidden in a false-bottom suitcase she was carrying.

The court also fined her one million yen, equivalent to $10,400.

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