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	Her appeal lawyers submitted that there had been a discrepancy in the weight of drugs seized by customs and that presented in court.</div>
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	&ldquo;The weight of the drugs had changed during the proceedings at the magistrate&rsquo;s level, compared to the weight recorded at the time of arrest,&rdquo; said counsel Afifuddin Ahmad Hafifi.</div>
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	Justice Mohamed Apandi questioned why the weight would have changed and what reason Customs officers would have to frame the Japanese national for drug trafficking.</div>
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	He said the lawyer should have provided more reasons to back his theory if he intended to question the integrity of Customs officers.</div>
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	Takeuchi is the first Japanese woman to receive the death penalty for drug trafficking in Malaysia.</div>
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	Afifuddin said he would be appealing to the Federal Court.</div>
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Death penalty for Japanese woman upheld in Malaysia

Malaysia's Court of Appeal upheld the Shah Alam High Court's decision to hang a Japanese ex-nurse for trafficking in 3.4 kilograms of methamphetamine. Mariko Takeuchi, 39, was caught with the drug on her arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Oc