David Bowie FAQ:Music:Songs:Its No Game: What do the Japanese lyrics mean?
These are simply a translation of the English lyrics. The original plan was that Bowie would sing the song in Japanese. However, the translator entrusted with the task of providing a translation didn’t understand that the translation had to match the syllables-per-line of the English original (so it would fit the music) and produced a translation that was impossible to sing along with the music. So Bowie and Visconti went to Plan B, which was to have a Japanese woman shriek the translation on the track.
