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モンゴメリー花子 international correspondent @CNN / Formerly: @vice @NHK / more active on IG @hanacocoaa / @AAJA / Ask the right questions
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Missing American student found dead in Japan after dayslong search

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By Rebekah Riess , Chris Boyette , Hanako Montgomery 
| KGTV-TV (San Diego, CA)
(CNN) — Search-and-rescue volunteers in Japan have found the body of an Auburn University student who went missing during a family vacation, his family said, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mountains. James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was found dead Saturday outside Kyoto, his family announced in a social media post. Police in Kyoto told CNN Weston’s body was found around 2:35 p.m. Saturday by volunteers searching the mountains in the city’s Yamashina area.
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Japanese citizens join in arduous search for a missing American who vanished in a mountainous forest

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By Hanako Montgomery , Holly Yan 
| WQOW-TV (Eau Claire, WI)
(CNN) — One stranger from Tokyo is shutting down his business for a week to help. Another volunteer dropped everything to provide transportation and translations for American parents desperate to find their son. The weeklong quest to find James “Weston” Higginbotham in Japan has yielded no signs of the 20-year-old. Now, with the permission of Japanese police, the student’s family has made a public plea for any experienced hikers to aid in the search through treacherous terrain.
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Japanese citizens join in arduous search for a missing American who vanished in a mountainous forest

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By Hanako Montgomery , Holly Yan 
| WXOW-TV (La Crosse, WI)
(CNN) — One stranger from Tokyo is shutting down his business for a week to help. Another volunteer dropped everything to provide transportation and translations for American parents desperate to find their son. The weeklong quest to find James “Weston” Higginbotham in Japan has yielded no signs of the 20-year-old. Now, with the permission of Japanese police, the student’s family has made a public plea for any experienced hikers to aid in the search through treacherous terrain.
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