But while such changes may be easy to articulate, they are hard to implement. For all of its talk, Matsushita was slow to dismantle its lifetime employment commitment to those hired under the traditional system. This was underlined early in Nakamura's tenure when in response to continued poor performance, Matsushita announced it would close 30 factorics in Japan, cut 13,000 jobs including 1,000 management jobs, and sell a "huge amount of assets" over the next three years.