To follow up on @happymomof1 's comment about work experience vis-a-vis majors, visas etc. - that’s a good point that the path to work experience in the US should be considered. That could be a point in favor of co-op schools/programs, which typically extend your time as an undergraduate to five years but build in around 18 months of work experience alternating with regular course work. This not only allows you to graduate with work experience on your resume (I can’t speak to how business schools view co-op jobs on the continuum between “internship” and "real job, but there’s definitely a real difference between a summer internship and a full six month block of employment), but also it connects you with employers who could be more likely to do the paperwork involved in hiring you when you graduate. Co-op schools generally are bigger and (not surprisingly) more pre-professional in vibe than LAC’s, but many have great offerings in liberal arts subject areas as well.
Northeastern (from my “bigger schools you still might want to consider” list above) has an unbeatable location and student experience in Boston, and loves full-pay international students. (They’ve gotten extremely competitive for domestic applicants - for whom they meet full financial need - and they’ve actually been criticized for relaxing their standards for some full-pay international students - akin to the way the U of CA schools have been criticized for admitting OOS students with slightly lower stats than their in-state admit pool.) They have business majors (with or without an international focus) and also an interesting range of Business + X combined majors (perhaps Business + Econ would interest you) http://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/business/business-administration-combined-majors/ (also the programs in the CS school that combine CS, Info Science, or Cybersecurity with Econ or Poli Sci) And, they have minors with great course offerings in both East Asian Studies http://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/social-sciences-humanities/asian-studies/east-asian-studies-minor/#minorrequirementstext and Photography https://camd.northeastern.edu/artdesign/academic-programs/photography-minor/
Rochester Institute of Technology (just ~3 miles from U of Rochester) has an exciting range of majors and minors http://www.rit.edu/emcs/admissions/academics/majors including several specialty areas within photography, media arts and design, etc… many different “flavors” of business, econ, poli sci, CS/info science, and “applied modern language and culture” which includes Japanese https://www.rit.edu/programs/immersions/modern-languages-and-cultures-japanese
Drexel University in Philadelphia and U of Cincinnati in OH are also good co-op schools.
Just another angle/possibility to think about. The LAC/small-U thing sounds like a great fit for you too, but it might not be terrible to float an application or two in the co-op direction and consider the possibility.