Silicon Valley innovates through disruption — break things fast, move on, iterate publicly. Japan innovates through refinement — take something that works and make it incrementally better, decade after decade. The iPhone was a disruption. The Toyota Production System was kaizen. Both changed the world. The difference is in the pace and the philosophy: revolution versus evolution.

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