Higginbotham was found in a mountainous area outside Kyoto by a volunteer search-and-rescue group, his mother said.

James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was last seen getting off a train at the Yamashina station in Kyoto Prefecture, according to his mother.

James “Weston” Higginbotham is a junior studying biosystems engineering at the Alabama college and was last seen in Kyoto.