Imperial Japan's plans for China

If (and this is a very big if) Japan had managed to conquer China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, what would it have done with it?

Would it have established a puppet regime, fully annexed it, separated it into smaller dependant states, taken certain choice bits for itself, etc.?
 
They were essentially making things up as they went along. The Kwangtung Army's idiotic invasion of China turned into a situation where the process itself almost became the goal.

I suspect they'd split it and install puppets cf. the Nanjing puppet government
 
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