Which region lay outside the western limits of the Japanese empire in 1944?

In 1944, the region that lay outside the western limits of the Japanese Empire was India. During World War II, Japan had expanded its territories across various parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, but India remained a British colony and was not under Japanese control. The western expansion of the Japanese Empire primarily included areas such as the Philippines, Malaya, and parts of China, but did not reach India.