The family of a missing US college student has begun its own search in Japan. Here’s a timeline of key moments in the case

By Jessie Yeung, Rebekah Riess, Hanako Montgomery, CNN (CNN) — The parents of an American college student missing in Japan are not giving up on finding their son, even after they say police finished searching the dense forest he was spotted walking toward more than a week ago. James “Weston” Higginbotham, a 20-year-old junior at