A family vacation to Japan ended in tragedy Saturday when a volunteer search-and-rescue team found the body of an Auburn University student in a forested mountain region after he had gone missing for a week.

James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was discovered deceased near Kyoto, his family announced in a social media post.

Police in Kyoto told CNN that Higginbotham was discovered around 2:35 p.m. Saturday by volunteers searching the mountains in the city’s Yamashina area.

What happened to Higginbotham remains a mystery, at least to the many Americans and local Japanese residents who have been following the case, which was covered by major…

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