India, June 9 -- A family member of Auburn University student James 'Weston' Higginbotham has claimed that the 20-year-old who died in Japan enjoyed long strolls for "decompression" and would not have wanted to hurt himself. Search-and-rescue volunteers in Japan found James' body after he went missing during a family vacation.

James went missing after he left to explore Kyoto on his own after an argument with his mother over her use of ChatGPT to navigate their trip.

Hiking at night in a foreign land might seem odd, but longtime neighbor and family friend Audrey Daniels said that James was "an experienced hiker and that was a mode of decompression for him as well," per NBC News.

Daniels, 23, and another family friend, Jennifer Harper B...