American student found dead in Japan after 72-hour search involving 100+ police

20-year-old American student died in mountainous terrain near Kyoto, Japan, leaving family devastated after multi-day search operation.

In the forested mountains outside Kyoto, a week-long search for a young American student came to a sorrowful end when volunteers found the body of twenty-year-old James Weston Higginbotham, an Auburn University student who had wandered alone into unfamiliar terrain during a family vacation. His disappearance on May 29th — marked by a sudden silence from his location-tracking app — set in motion a massive police operation, then a private family search, before the worst was confirmed. His story joins a long human record of the tension between the desire for independent discovery and the vulnerab

American student found dead in Japan after 72-hour search involving 100+ police

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