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A United States (US) student, James Higginbotham, has been found dead outside Kyoto in Japan, after going missing during a family vacation; his mother confirmed this in a Facebook post on Saturday.
Nancy Higginbotham said the body of her 20-year-old son was discovered in a mountainous area by a volunteer search-and-rescue team.
“Our family is heartbroken. The grief we feel is impossible to put into words,” she wrote.
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, and further details were not immediately available. The late student, who was an Alabama resident and engineering student at Auburn University, was last seen on May 29 after leaving a train station in Kyoto.
His mother previously told Reuters that his phone later went off and location tracking stopped working that night. She said the family had been monitoring his movements through the Life360 app before communication was lost.
Nancy Higginbotham added that her son may have headed toward a nearby hiking trail and that he believed he “needed space” during the trip. The family was visiting Japan to celebrate the high school graduation of James’s younger brother.
Japanese authorities had earlier launched a three-day search operation involving about 100 officers, K-9 units, and helicopters, but found no trace, CNN reported.
