Especially for those currently in Japan: If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact the Kyoto Prefectural Police or the U.S. Embassy in Japan immediately.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/04/japan/society/missing-american-kyoto/> Kyoto police search for missing American tourist> By Elizabeth Beattie> Jun 4, 2026>> Kyoto police are searching for a 20-year-old American man who went missing last week during a family trip to Japan. James Higginbotham, who also goes by Weston, was last seen in the Kyoto area on Friday last week. His parents, Nancy and Keith Higginbotham, are working with local authorities and are desperately asking the public to help them find their son.>> “We truly believe he’s still alive. We’re looking for him alive. I want everyone to know that, because of the sense of urgency, he could be out there needing food or help,” Keith Higginbotham said Thursday. “We’ve got to find him.”>> On Wednesday, as a tropical storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the area, 50 local police officers and police dogs trekked through mud and helicopters droned above heavily wooded areas around the mountainous Yamashina Ward in the city of Kyoto, after police mapped his movements using CCTV.> > A tall, white male with flowing blond hair, Higginbotham was wearing a white T-shirt bearing the words “save the bees” when he disappeared. Nancy Higginbotham described her eldest son as a “vegan pacifist” and a natural adventurer who “enjoys life.” She had no serious concerns about his well-being prior to his disappearance.
>>536387396> He is an experienced hiker who would often venture deep into the woods, straying from trails, Nancy Higginbotham said. “He lives to see the sunrise,” she said, describing his past ambitious adventures at all hours.>> “It’s been 5½ days,” she said, describing the uncertainty as heartbreaking, traumatic and taking an immense toll.>> The well-traveled, outdoorsy family arrived in Tokyo on May 22, on a trip to celebrate the high school graduation of their youngest son, Grayton. After busy days zigzagging the country, they arrived in Kyoto on May 29.>> Wanting some space, James Higginbotham set out to explore the city by himself with the expectation that the family would meet up again afterward. The family uses Life360, a GPS tracking app, and when his parents saw their eldest had boarded a train, they pestered him to tell them his plans. Shortly afterward his GPS was switched off. There has been no recorded usage of his credit card or Japanese eSIM since then.>> The family filed a missing person report to a Kyoto police station later that night. The public has been of great help by handing out posters, helping with mapping and interpretation, the couple said.>> If you have any information about James Higginbotham, please call the Higashiyama Police Station in Kyoto at 075-525-0110.
Hahahahaha higgin bottom! Bongs are sooooooo silly
This may be in bad taste but were the spirits of the forests of Japan disappointed with his offerings of vegan food?
>>536387492>20-Year-Old American Man.
Whitu puggu go homu
>>536387396Some drunk yakuza probably thought he was an ugly server girl and things got ugly.
>>536387431Halfatroon got raped to death by a fox demon sad many such cases
>>536387431People that location share are fucking psychos like those who have cameras indoors. If you're that paranoid your life is already a waking hell nightmare
>>536387396Probably he is now gay-fuck-toy some of your sex-caves.
>>536387712He is in Japan. Not Finland.
>>536387396>>536387431What's wrong with this nigga? Was he trooning out? Good he is gone then.
probably thought he was in an anime and wanted to do a cool solo adventure in heckin japanthen got caught in a landslide or some shit and his weaker vegan body couldn't survive
>>536387396He’s just hiding because he doesn’t want to go back to the nigger faggot spic country he came from. Working under the table in Japan while hiding from immigration is a 100x better life than living in the US
>Burger trust fund vegan cunt decides to waste everyone's timeI fail to see how this is Japan is problem, the family should be billed for wasting Japan taxfunded services on what amounts to some troon throwing a hissy fit.
>>536387929>>536387904he must be in the wilderness deadif he were in the city larping he'd be spotted by now, tall blonde cracker, no way he's still in kyoto or wherever
>>536387904He should have went to Germany, whites are niggers in japan
>>536387806My question is what would turn his GPS off? A Bear or Boar wouldn't do this...
>>536387996That chink eyed twink could dye his hair black and pass as a jap no problem
>>536387806...and?
>>536388021my thoughts as wellobviously he was the only one who had accesseither he turned it off and wandered off aloneor he turned it off deliberately to go hide away with some localin either case it doesnt make sense since he didnt inform the motherwho clearly cares and is worriedso it doesnt make senseif he was abducted, they wouldnt have “turned off” the gps unless the phonewas destroyed
>>536388144He probably hates his overbearing bitchy mom who shouts from the rooftops about how she raised a “vegan pacifist”
>>536387568t. Rexford Haversham Smythenwiggle IV
>>536388263plausibleand maybe thats why his hairline is obliteratedbut on that same thought linewouldnt he be too weak and malnourishedto ever think in terms of rebellion?idkits just odd, like what happened a little jap girldragged him into her apartment and hes like nicei no longer want to be an american cuck or whateverbut if that was true, wouldnt he tell the mom?
>>536387996>Richfag orbiting parents decide to GPS track their spawn>Trust fund troon throws a hissy fit and decides to become le epic rebel by turning off the GPS and venture into the forest>Dysgenic retarded faggot accidentally walks off a cliff ending his lifeAgain, why is Japan paying for some rich gaijins' bad parenting?
>>536388144It's one of three things... A serial killer's first kill or one of those forest demons... Or indeed he wanted to ditch his parents and society in general but I am less inclined to believe the latter due to the fact he made an effort to have GPS in the first place.
>>536388322Very American Elite name... I didn't consider he was held for ransom and someone knew his status.
>>536387396Would
>>536387396bear?
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>>536388376yeah, so it seems most likely he fell down a cliffor some serial killer got him or forest demon is raping himin a hollowed out tree idk im just guessing
>>536389266I doubt a fall simply because phones are extremely durable and most hill slopes in Japan have leaf litter at the bottom making a softer landing, could kill a person easily but not a phone.
>>536389005Interesting fact... Is set in the last Ainu village of Honshu. However people aren't sure if Ainu were there if distinct from Emishi.
>>536388907Probably, he got lost in a place where you can walk for 60 minutes and you're guaranteed to run across someone or a major road.
>>536389892I doubt the Bear, Boar or even fall simply because of GPS going down roughly at time of disappearance, however if he was indeed smashed by a Car along with Phone, that is plausible, yet that means someone is on the run for vehicular manslaughter/failing to report it.
>>536387396He's dead. They'll find his body in a week in a random spot.
>>536390043The bear ate his phone
>>536387396He's behind the ramen shop in tobita shinchi, you know the one
>>536390139Jaws even of Asiatic Black Bear aren't strong enough for this, phone would be inside Bear sending out a weak signal.
>>536387431got lost looking for some tree stars to munch on
>>536387396why is this news? adults going missing generally don't make the news, especially men.
>>536387396Bear. Japan hunted their wolves to extinction and now they have a problem with too many bears. So they're making robot wolves. Really.
>20yoSo he's probably gotten drunk, and ended up somewhere, and died.I believe there was some other collage age gaijin a few years ago who drank, and then ended up drowning in some river nearby.
