Trackers find trail of missing US poet in Japan

A team of American trackers found the footprints Wednesday of an award-winning U.S. poet who went missing on a remote Japanese island while hiking up a volcano.

University of Wyoming assistant professor Craig Arnold, 41, was reported missing April 27 after he failed to return from a hike on the tiny island of Kuchinoerabu-jima, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the coast of Japan's southern Kyushu island.

Japanese authorities scaled down their search because their efforts yielded no clues for more than a week. But a four-person team of American trackers arrived in Japan on Tuesday and picked up Arnold's trail Wednesday, according to David Kovar, founder of …