For 10 points, name this war in which the author Yukio Mishima was drafted to serve the Imperial Japanese Army.
During this war, a man known only as "The Boss" became rich because he fused with an animal with a star on its back, in a novel in the "trilogy of the Rat." In another novel, a young man witnesses a woman add her breast milk to tea for a soldier going to this war. An elderly lieutenant recounts how, in this war, he was forced to watch his comrade be skinned alive before the Battle of (*) Nomonhan, in the novel The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. In another novel, Mizoguchi finishes the job a few years after this war fails to burn down the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. For 10 points, name this war in which the author Yukio Mishima was drafted to serve the Imperial Japanese Army.
During this war, a man known only as "The Boss" became rich because he fused with an animal with a star on its back, in a novel in the "trilogy of the Rat."
World War II [or the Second World War; accept Second Sino-Japanese War] &lt;RY, LongFic&gt;