No foul play suspected in Japan
Remember the Japanese Imperialists fought alongside German Nazis and Italian Fascists in WWII.
I wouldn't say this young man was "gay" necessarily on the basis of appearance alone but he would definitely have attracted the attentions of gay men while he was alive.
An Alabama student who went missing in Japan while traveling with his family has been found dead, his mother said in a Saturday, June 6, social media post. It had been over a week since he was last seen. ¶James "Weston" Higginbotham was found by a volunteer search-and-rescue team in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, Japan, his mother Nancy Higginbotham said.
Date “6/6” is sort of a gay man’s code where June is often considered “Pride Month.”
There is always opportunity for foul play between a mama’s boy and a volunteer search and rescue team comprised of otherwise loose or unattached men.
Yakuza gangsters, Neo-Nazi hate and Italian Mafia ideology never really went away, and hence the “victory” of WWII was rather hollow and short-lived, since the Communists who “helped” us win WWII turned against us so soon in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.