Capt. Miho Otani, the first woman to take the helm of a Japanese Aegis-equipped warship, returns salutes on the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Myoko on Monday at the MSDF's Maizuru base in Kyoto Prefecture. Otani, 48, became the first woman in the MSDF to captain a training vessel in 2013 and the first to command an MSDF destroyer in 2016. | KYODO
