The search for James Weston Higginbotham, an American student whose family holiday ended in tragedy, has concluded after rescue teams discovered his body on a Japanese mountain. The twenty-year-old Auburn University undergraduate was confirmed dead on Saturday following a massive multi-day operation in the dense forests near Kyoto.
Authorities have not yet released an official cause of death for the naturalist. The discovery marks a devastating end to a widespread search that began when the student vanished in late May while exploring the historic city alone.
