Japanese-American woman who symbolized WWII tragedy dies at 80

Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa Llewellyn, who came to symbolize one of America’s darkest chapters, has died nearly eight decades after being shipped to a US internment camp during World War II. A 1942 photo of her sitting alone on a suitcase at a Los Angeles train station embodied the cruelty of the US policy of confining Japanese-Americans, who officials claimed were a war-time threat. More than 120,000 people like her were forced into camps throughout…