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Minatsu Mitani (三谷 美菜津, Mitani Minatsu; born 4 September 1991) is a is a retired Japanese badminton player who competed in women's singles for NTT East and the Japan national team. She reached a career-high world ranking of No. 9. Mitani won her first Superseries title at the 2012 French Open to become the first Japanese player to win a BWF Superseries singles title.

At the 2014 World Championships in Copenhagen, she won the women's singles bronze medal, becoming the first Japanese women's singles player to win a World Championships medal in 37 years.

In team competition, Mitani was part of the Japanese teams that won silver medals at the 2014 Uber Cup, the 2015 Sudirman Cup, and the 2016 Asia Team Championships, as well as bronze medals at the 2012 Uber Cup and the 2014 Asian Games. Domestically, she won the women's singles title at the All Japan Championships in 2013. Mitani retired from competitive badminton at the end of 2019.