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Missing US student found dead in Japan
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An American student who disappeared while on a family holiday in Japan was found dead outside Kyoto, his mother wrote in a social media 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.
An American student who disappeared while on a family holiday in Japan was found dead outside Kyoto, his mother wrote in a social media 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 said. “The grief we feel is impossible to put into words.”
Higginbotham, an Alabama resident and an...