With today being today.....What was Japan's long term plan after the attack on Pearl Harbor? If the U.S. were to fold, what was the plan for the continental U.S.?
Japan seemed to have no long term plans for the United States itself. It wanted to build an empire in the Far East (china, Indochina etc) to secure farmland and raw resources to feed its industrialised economy.
However America would stand in their way of doing this so they knew they had to knock them out of the war quickly. Pearl Harbour was supposed to achieve a knock out play on the Pacific fleet (destroying its aircraft carriers and making the base unusable preventing them from interfering with Japanese plans. With no way to stop the Japanese, they'd hoped the US, like Hitler hoped with Britain after the fall of France would sue for peace. Really Japanese plans seemed much more logical/calculated than Hitler's grand schemes.
But there were main who privately doubted that the plan would work. Yamamoto said he could only guarantee victory for sixth months and like Hitler, Japan had purged all foreign speaking people from government and so completely misread America and its resolve to fight on.
A rather more specific question than has been previously addressed, but you might be interested in some previous threads both about the goals of the Pearl Harbor attack in specific or the larger goals that the Japanese high command hoped to achieve in the aftermath of a successful war: