Topps Japan is now offering Topps Now cards for NPB. They've got seven cards currently up on their website featuring events from the first couple weeks of the season. The cards are 1243 yen a piece (about $8) although there are volume discounts if you're buying multiple copies of the same card (although there is no bundle for all seven cards available). Unlike the MLB version of Topps Now, the NPB cards are on sale for a week. I guess we'll see if Topps will offer new cards every day or if it'll be a weekly offering (or some other interval).
It appears that Topps will not ship these cards overseas. I suspect there's something in their NPB license prohibiting them from doing so as they also wouldn't ship the Tigers Championship set overseas but will do so with the Samurai Japan cards.
I'm mildly surprised that Topps appears to have made a little bit of effort on the cards backs. There's text in both Japanese and English describing what's happening on the card and it's not simply a repeat of the text on the front. Granted it's not a paragraph like the MLB Topps Now cards have but at least it's not just listing when and where the game happened without even giving the score like the Topps Now Samurai Japan cards have had.
I'm going to be curious which teams they end up doing Topps Now cards for. There's only four teams represented in the first batch of cards - two Eagles, two Tigers, two Lions and a Dragon. Will they do cards for more teams? Will they do cards for teams that Epoch isn't doing Epoch One cards for (which would be the Carp and Buffaloes)? I'll also be curious to see what events get featured on the cards. So far, the events on five of the seven Topps Now cards were also featured on Epoch One cards. Since Epoch is somewhat slow in their rollout of Epoch One cards, it's possible the other two will be represented as well.
I guess the big question is whether there's a big enough demand for "on demand" NPB cards for both Epoch and Topps to be doing them. Given that Epoch One cards are only 500 yen, less than half the price of the Topps Now cards and so far are covering the same events, it's hard to see why anyone would want the Topps cards.