Words you can’t say on Japanese television.
Sunday, October 29th, 2006I got this link off the Asian Studies community on Livejournal. 
I can’t understand everything, but a lot of the words have to do with describing handicapped people (for example, you’re not supposed to say “idiot” to describe a mentally retarded person), race (you’re not supposed to call a white person a “red hair person,” and you’re not supposed to say “black man,” but it doesn’t offer any other suggestion), and place names (you’re not supposed to use names that were used during WWII and will come across as too nationalistic).¬†