The best friend of the missing Auburn University student who mysteriously vanished during a family trip to Japan revealed their haunting last text exchanges, shortly after the pair reunited in Tokyo. James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, reconnected with Hiyu Shikari, 20, in Japan — they were close friends who attended the same middle school in the US before Shikari moved to the island around 2019. Their final encounter came at a dinner in Shinjuku, a popular tourist destination in Tokyo, after