A howling suppression device includes a subtractor which subtracts a pseudo feedback signal from an input signal an adaptive filter which produces a pseudo feedback signal for a next input signal and a coefficient update control unit which controls an update rate of a filter coefficient of the adaptive filter and includes: a level calculation unit which calculates a signal level of the input signal a signal-rising-edge detection unit which detects a rising-edge point a reverberation section detection unit which detects a reverberation section and an update rate control unit which sets the update rate to a first rate in the reverberation section and to a second rate in other sections. The adaptive filter updates the filter coefficient at the update rate set by the update rate control unit.
