noun
Refers to a newspaper published in a language other than Japanese, typically within Japan or for an international audience.
彼は毎朝、外字紙を読んで国際情勢をチェックしている。
He reads a foreign-language newspaper every morning to check international affairs.
Compound of 外字 (がいじ, 'foreign characters/script') + 紙 (し, 'newspaper'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is conventionally associated with newspapers in non-Japanese languages.