NEW YORK—An American student who disappeared while on a family vacation in Japan was found dead outside Kyoto, his mother wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.
• The body of James Higginbotham, 20, was discovered in a mountainous area by a volunteer search-and-rescue group, Nancy Higginbotham wrote.
• A cause of death and further details were not immediately available.
• “Our family is heartbroken,” she wrote. “The grief we feel is impossible to put into words.”
• Higginbotham, an Alabama resident and an engineering student at Auburn University, was last seen leaving a Kyoto train station on May 29. Later that night, his phone went dark and its location services were turned off, his mother previously told Reuters….
Missing US Student Found Dead Near Kyoto, Japan, Mother Says
