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Alabama family pleads for return of son missing on family trip in Japan
An Alabama family is searching for their 20-year-old son, Weston (James), who went missing in Kyoto, Japan, after he turned off his phone's location during a solo train trip. Authorities, police, volunteers, and the FBI are assisting the search in a mountainous area during a typhoon. Weston, an environmental engineering student and avid naturalist, had a disagreement with his mother over using ChatGPT for travel navigation.
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