diff --git a/lucene/MIGRATE.md b/lucene/MIGRATE.md
index e66470834ac..3c70852bc7e 100644
--- a/lucene/MIGRATE.md
+++ b/lucene/MIGRATE.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Apache Lucene Migration Guide
 
+## JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory loads default stop tags if "tags" argument not specified (LUCENE-9567)
+
+Previously, JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory added no filter if `args` didn't include "tags". Now, it will load 
+the default stop tags returned by `JapaneseAnalyzer.getDefaultStopTags()` (i.e. the tags from`stoptags.txt` in the 
+`lucene-analyzers-kuromoji` jar.)
+
 ## ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer is renamed (LUCENE-9558)
 
 o.a.l.collation.ICUCollationAnalyzer is renamed to o.a.l.a.icu.ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer.
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
index 9ba85c7e530..0e69d0180e1 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ public class JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory im
   public JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory(Map<String,String> args) {
     super(args);
     stopTagFiles = get(args, "tags");
+    if (stopTagFiles == null) {
+      stopTags = JapaneseAnalyzer.getDefaultStopTags();
+    }
     if (!args.isEmpty()) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown parameters: " + args);
     }
@@ -65,13 +68,15 @@ public class JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory im
 
   @Override
   public void inform(ResourceLoader loader) throws IOException {
-    stopTags = null;
-    CharArraySet cas = getWordSet(loader, stopTagFiles, false);
-    if (cas != null) {
-      stopTags = new HashSet<>();
-      for (Object element : cas) {
-        char chars[] = (char[]) element;
-        stopTags.add(new String(chars));
+    if (stopTagFiles != null) {
+      stopTags = null;
+      CharArraySet cas = getWordSet(loader, stopTagFiles, false);
+      if (cas != null) {
+        stopTags = new HashSet<>();
+        for (Object element : cas) {
+          char chars[] = (char[]) element;
+          stopTags.add(new String(chars));
+        }
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/TestJapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/TestJapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
index 501d2fca408..6c728a05ef4 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/TestJapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/kuromoji/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ja/TestJapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.BaseTokenStreamTestCase;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.ClasspathResourceLoader;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
 
 /**
@@ -50,6 +51,22 @@ public class TestJapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory extends BaseTokenStreamTe
         new String[] { "私", "は", "制限", "スピード", "を" }
     );
   }
+
+  /** If we don't specify "tags", then load the default stop tags. */
+  public void testNoTagsSpecified() throws IOException {
+    JapaneseTokenizerFactory tokenizerFactory = new JapaneseTokenizerFactory(new HashMap<String,String>());
+    tokenizerFactory.inform(new StringMockResourceLoader(""));
+    TokenStream ts = tokenizerFactory.create();
+    ((Tokenizer)ts).setReader(new StringReader("私は制限スピードを超える。"));
+    Map<String,String> args = new HashMap<>();
+    args.put("luceneMatchVersion", Version.LATEST.toString());
+    JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory factory = new JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory(args);
+    factory.inform(new ClasspathResourceLoader(JapaneseAnalyzer.class));
+    ts = factory.create(ts);
+    assertTokenStreamContents(ts,
+            new String[] { "私", "制限", "スピード", "超える" }
+    );
+  }
   
   /** Test that bogus arguments result in exception */
   public void testBogusArguments() throws Exception {