A quiet graduation trip turned into a nightmare for one Alabama family after 20-year-old Auburn University student James 'Weston' Higginbotham vanished without a trace in Japan. What was meant to be a celebratory journey across Kyoto has now become an international search effort filled with fear, hope, and relentless appeals for help.
His disappearance on 29 May has triggered a massive response from Japanese authorities, US officials, volunteers, and a growing online community trying to piece together his last known movements. At the heart of the case is a devastated family clinging to hope while pleading for anyone with information to come forward.
