It took eight days, a volunteer rescue team, and the combined hope of two nations — but the search for James 'Weston' Higginbotham is over, and the news is as devastating as his family feared.
Nancy Higginbotham, Weston's mother, confirmed on Saturday morning via Facebook that her 20-year-old son had been found dead. Rescuers located his body in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, far from the train station where he was last seen alive. He was a student at Auburn University in Alabama, travelling with his family when everything went wrong.
