Japanese man walks home 800 miles after being mugged The man, who has not been named, set out from the city of Kitakyushu after being mugged on August 25 and arrived back at his home in Sendai, in the northeast of Japan, 11 days later. Fortunately, the man had concealed an extra Y2,000 (£12.82) in a shoe. Instead of using it to call his family and explain his situation, or of reporting the attack to police, he started walking. "I used the money I had hidden in my shoe to buy bread and water to fight off the hunger," the man said. "It was good to be able to get home, but I did not want to cause any problems for anyone," he said. I'm sorry to everyone that I inconvenienced. The man added that the trip had not been a complete disaster as he had been able to find a rare card to add to his collection and that the muggers had failed to steal it.