Captain Miho Otani (大谷 三穂) (born May 28, 1971) is an officer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Otani was also a member of the first female class to enter the National Defense Academy of Japan.

When she was in her second year of high school she saw news about the Gulf War and decided to apply to the National Defense Academy of Japan instead.

[3] At first she wanted to be a pilot, but she ended up being assigned to the Maritime Self-Defense Force, where she worked on the training ship JDS Natsugumo.

The ban on women serving in destroyers had been lifted in 2008, and so in 2011 she became the vice captain of JS Asagiri.